Letter from Private Patrick Furey (b.1895), a member of the 3rd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, to Lady Clonbrock (1840-1928). Private Furey was in hospital in Dublin convalescing from a wound received on active service and writes to request 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. Private Furey survived the War and was demobilised in 1920.