Postcard from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 16 May 1916

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Postcard from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 16 May 1916

1 May 16.16 BROOMFIELD, CAMBERLEY. 5473 Pte Michael Sweeney
Connaught Ranger Comp I
Kriegsgefangenenlager. Tauberbischofsheim. Baden
(formerly at Mannhein, Baden, & at Cassel) Can
you kindly tell me if this man is getting regular
parcels? He wrote to a friend of mine, and his
mother writes to me from Castlebar to say that he
wrote that he had had nothing for 6 weeks.
The Irish armies Association say they know nothing of
him. Neither do the Dublin Fusiliers, in the Leinsters. (Miss) Maude Chenevix Trench 2 The Hon. Secretary Connaught Rangers Prisoners of War Fund Clonbrock Ahascragh Co Galway

This is a postcard from Emily Maude Chenevix Trench (1874-1937), to Augusta Caroline Dillon Clonbrock, Lady Clonbrock (1840-1928) inquiring whether Sweeney has been getting regular packages, stating that according to his mother he wrote to her to state he has not received anything from her in 6 weeks. Trench also writes that the Irish Armies Association knows nothing of him.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__0313.html)