Letter from 'May' to 'Aunt Tweegle' (Lady Clonbrock), 17 July 1916

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Letter from 'May' to 'Aunt Tweegle' (Lady Clonbrock), 17 July 1916

1 7 Ridgeway Gardens. Monday. My darling Aunt Tweegle, We hope very much
to find you & Uncle Gerald
at home tomorrow morning
about 12 o' clock so please
don't go out & disappoint
us! Eileen has been here
she tells me there has been a
letter to Arthur from Edward,
written on the 9th. Poor boy, he
says it is all too ghastly for words
&they are all nearly dead with
fatigue those who are left alive.
Many of his officers killed &
he was hit by shrapnel & his
trousers torn & his money in
his pocket torn & he was what
he calls knocked and at one 2 time. They are now marching
north he believes to Ypres
where they are going to start
fighting now. He says the
men etc. are quite worn
out. It is too awful to think
of him only 20 in the midst
of such horrors & terrible
sights. Poor boy. I believe
he feels it much. I suppose
if they are marching north
they are not fighting just
yet. Yours ever, May 3 The Lady Clonbrock 10 Cadogan Gardens S.W.

A letter to Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928) from her niece May. In the letter, May asks Lady Clonbrock to ensure she will be at home when they make a visit tomorrow. She then refers to a letter sent to by 'Arthur' who was then fighting in France during World War I. May describes the content of the letter and sympathises with Edward's plight, noting that the men are all 'nearly dead with fatigue'. They were marching towards Ypres, many officers had been killed and Edward had been hit with some shrapnel.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.

May
Lady Clonbrock
1916-07-17
World War I (1914-1918) Personal Relations

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__0038.html)