Letter from Private M. Cahill to Lady Clonbrock, 17 April 1916 Letters 1916-1923 M. Cahill

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Letter from Private M. Cahill, 5th Company, Connaught Rangers, to Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928). Cahill writes to thank Lady Clonbrock for cigarettes she has sent via the 'Tobacco Fund' in London. The 'Tobacco Fund' was managed by the 'Weekly Dispatch' newspaper to supply cigarettes to servicemen in the British army and the soldier would have received the postcard with the cigarettes.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.

 National Library of Ireland Clonbrock Estate Papers, Collection List No. 54, Ms. 35,797 (1) https://letters1916.ie/item/282 English M. Cahill 1916-04-17 Germany Augusta Caroline Dillon Ahascragh, County Galway, Ireland Male World War I (1914-1918)

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 Dear Lady Clonbrock I received your parcel of cigarettes all right and I am, very thankful to you for it. Yours Respectifully M Cahill Lady Clonbrock. Clonbrock. Ahascragh. Ireland. A request Most of these postcards will naturally be returned to the folks at home who are sending tobacco and cigarettes. And if the message on this post card is of more than personal interest, then the friend who recieves this post card would greatly help the good work by sending it to the Organizer of the Tobacco Fund. It would probably help the Organiser to stimulate furter subscriptions, and,- a lot more money is re- quired to keep up supplies tp brave men. Ahascragh, County Galway, Ireland Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 13 December 1915Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 1 October 1916Letter from Private M. Cahill to Lady Clonbrock, 17 April 1916Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 2 August 1916 Germany Letter from Private M. Cahill to Lady Clonbrock, 17 April 1916Letter from Sir Roger Casement, 13 March 1916Letter from Corporal W. Bowes to Lady Clonbrock, 18 October 1916Letter from M.P. Kehoe to Sir Roger Casement, 8 November 1915Letter from Joseph Connolly, 14th Company, Connaught Rangers, 5 January 1916 Augusta Caroline Dillon Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 13 December 1915Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 1 October 1916Letter from Private M. Cahill to Lady Clonbrock, 17 April 1916Letter from J. L. Hay to Lady Clonbrock, 7 January 1916Letter from Private Patrick Furey to Lady Clonbrock, 4 January 1916Letter from Jessie Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 19 April 1916Letter from John J. Thompson to Augusta Caroline Dillon, Lady Clonbrock, 13 November 1915Letter from Josephine Murray to Lady Clonbrock, 22 May 1916Letter from Elizabeth Francis Neill to Lady Clonbrock, 21 February 1916Letter from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 13 June 1916Postcard from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 16 May 1916Letter from Lady Clonbrock to Eliza Chamier, 24 May 1916Letter from George Hugh Chetwood Townsend to Lady Clonbrock, 1 April 1916Letter from Edith Francis Maxwell to Lady Clonbrock, 22 June 1916Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 2 August 1916Letter from Ursula Mahon to Lady Clonbrock, 18 July 1916Letter from Lady Mayo, Royal Dublin Fusiliers Kildare Committee, to Lady Clonbrock, 31 December 1915.Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 12 August, 1916.Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 12 August 1916.Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 29 February 1916.Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 25 February, 1916.Letter from Lady Mayo to Lady Clonbrock, 28 December, 1915.Letter from N. Maxwell, 23 July 1916.Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 23 February, 1916.Letter from Kathleen Lewis, 19 October 1916.Letter from George C. Townshend to Lady Clonbrock, 18 October 1916.Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 26 June 1916Letter from the Marquess of Sligo to Lady Clonbrock, 23 October, 1916.Letter from Florence to Lady Clonbrock, 28 November 1916. M. Cahill Letter from Private M. Cahill to Lady Clonbrock, 17 April 1916Postcard from Private Cahill to Lady Clonbrock, 19 March 1916Postcard from Private M. Cahill to Lady Clonbrock, March 1916