Letter from George Hugh Chetwood Townsend to Lady Clonbrock, 1 April 1916

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Letter from George Hugh Chetwood Townsend to Lady Clonbrock, 1 April 1916

1 Cordangan Manor' Tipperary. 1st April 1916. My Lady, It is very good of you to send a donation to our
Wounded Soldiers' Fund; and also to allow your name to be
used in connection with the Association that has been formed
to further help the cause of these men. I feel that you also
have to be thanked for the donation sent by the Committee of the
Connaught Rangers War Fund, which has just been received from
your Treasurer. I hope to be able to further write to you
before long about this work. Yours faithfully, George C. Townsend The Lady Clonbrock, Clonbrock, Ahaskeragh, Ireland. 2 1916
April 3
Mr Townsend
Tipperary Wounded
Soldiers

Letter from George Hugh Chetwood Townsend (b. 1872) to Lady Clonbrock (1840-1928). The letter was addressed to John James Thompson (1872-1924), the registrar at the Royal Hospital for Incurables. George Townsend was writing on behalf of the Tipperary Wounded Soldiers' Fund. The letter thanks Clonbrock for her donation to the fund and for allowing her name to be used in connection with the association.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__0321.html)