Letter from George Hugh Chetwood Townsend to Lady Clonbrock, 1 April 1916
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.
How to cite
Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__0321.html)
- Place
- Clonbrock, Ahascragh, County Galway, Ireland
- Mentioned in
- Letter from John J. Thompson to Augusta Caroline Dillon, Lady Clonbrock, 13 November 1915
- Letter from George Hugh Chetwood Townsend to Lady Clonbrock, 1 April 1916
- Place
- Cordangan Manor, Tipperary, Ireland
- Mentioned in
- Letter from George Hugh Chetwood Townsend to Lady Clonbrock, 1 April 1916
- Mentioned in
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- Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 13 December 1915
- Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 1 October 1916
- Letter from Private M. Cahill to Lady Clonbrock, 17 April 1916
- Letter from J. L. Hay to Lady Clonbrock, 7 January 1916
- Letter from Private Patrick Furey to Lady Clonbrock, 4 January 1916
- Letter from Jessie Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 19 April 1916
- Letter from John J. Thompson to Augusta Caroline Dillon, Lady Clonbrock, 13 November 1915
- Letter from Josephine Murray to Lady Clonbrock, 22 May 1916
- Letter from Elizabeth Francis Neill to Lady Clonbrock, 21 February 1916
- Letter from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 13 June 1916
- Postcard from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 16 May 1916
- Letter from Lady Clonbrock to Eliza Chamier, 24 May 1916
- Letter from George Hugh Chetwood Townsend to Lady Clonbrock, 1 April 1916
- Letter from Edith Francis Maxwell to Lady Clonbrock, 22 June 1916
- Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 2 August 1916
- Letter from Ursula Mahon to Lady Clonbrock, 18 July 1916
- Letter 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 1916
- Letter from the Marquess of Sligo to Lady Clonbrock, 23 October, 1916.
- Letter from Florence to Lady Clonbrock, 28 November 1916.