Letter from Corporal W. Bowes to Lady Clonbrock, 7 February 1916

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Letter from Corporal W. Bowes to Lady Clonbrock, 7 February 1916

1 Mon adresse pour la reponse: Nom et prenom: 3828 Capt. W. Bowes Prisonnier de guerre. Regt: 2nd Comm. Rangers Camp of Seiderzollhous Bie Janneby Gustrow en M. (Allemagne) Barraque No.: detache a in Schleswig - Germany
Correspondance: My Dear Lady, I am very pleased to inform you
that I have just received a parcel
in good order containing tea,
sugar, milk, 1 tin salmon, dripping,
army rashions, 5 packettsigaretts,
1 pk soup, powder soap which I
was very thankful to get.
My kind lady, I have changed
my address back to the same camp
as I was in before. Yours respectfully, W. Bowes
July 7th '16. 2 Postkarte The Lady Clanbrock Ahascragh Ireland Kriegsâ€”
gefangenenâ€”
Sendung. Gefangenenlager Suder â€” Hallhaus (Post Jonnely) Schlosury

Letter from a prisoner of war, Corporal W. Bowes, Connaught Rangers, to Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928). Corporal Bowes was then a prisoner of war in a camp in Gustow, Germany. He thanks Lady Clonbrock for a parcel she had sent him and notes that he had been moved back to a camp where he had previously been held.Augusta Caroline Dillon (née Crofton) was the wife of Luke Gerald Dillon (1834-1917), the 4th Baron of Clonbrock, Co. Galway and the daughter of Lord Crofton of Mote Park (Edward Henry Churchill Crofton, 3rd Baron), Co. Roscommon. Aged 75 at the outbreak of war, Lady Clonbrock, worked closely with the Irish Women's Association to send basic necessities to Irish POWs. Many of her care packages went to members of the Connaught Rangers imprisoned in Limburg near Cologne.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__0029.html)