1 Mrs. E.G.Armstrong, Mount Pleasant Avenue, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. Aug 2 1916 Dear Lady Clonbrock I wonder if you could with any
influence while you are in London to
get young Cawley — Oliver Royal Engineers
transferred to home service — I enclose
his letter — I wrote some months ago
& the War Office reply was they sympathised
greatly with his father but could not do anything — Old Cawley is not old enough to get
old age pension — & is getting too old
to do much in the way of chimney
sweeping — his wife died of consumption
about six months after the war broke out
& 1 married & 2 unmarried sons of his
have been killed in this war — & he has
only a small boy about 14 or 15 living with
him — his daughters are married except
a delicate girl in the Millhouse Infirmary. My husband is not very strong
yet, but is better. I wonder will any 2 of you be home for the Flower Show — We expect Jacky here on or before the 10th
for a few days & then she is going on to
Mayo — Yours very sincerely Emma Armstrong Cawley R. Eng : Mrs. Armstrong