Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 2 August 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Emma Armstrong

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Letter from Emma Armstrong to Augusta Caroline Dillon, Lady Clonbrock (1840-1928), asking Clonbrock if she can use her influence to have a soldier named Cawley transferred from the front to home service. Cawley's father is getting too old to work and only has a young son at home; his daughters bar one are married and three sons have been killed in the war. She also mentions the health of her husband and the upcoming Chelsea Flower Show.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.

 National Library of Ireland Clonbrock Estate Papers, Collection List No. 54;, Ms. 35,796/10/7 https://letters1916.ie/item/323 English Emma Armstrong 1916-08-02 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland Augusta Caroline Dillon Ahascragh, County Galway, Ireland Female World War I (1914-1918)

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 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 of you be home for the Flower Show — We expect Jacky here on or before the 10thfor a few days & then she is going on to Mayo — Yours very sincerely Emma Armstrong Cawley R. Eng : Mrs. Armstrong Ahascragh, County Galway, Ireland Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 13 December 1915Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 1 October 1916Letter from Private M. Cahill to Lady Clonbrock, 17 April 1916Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 2 August 1916 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 2 August 1916Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 26 June 1916 Augusta Caroline Dillon Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 13 December 1915Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 1 October 1916Letter from Private M. Cahill to Lady Clonbrock, 17 April 1916Letter from J. L. Hay to Lady Clonbrock, 7 January 1916Letter from Private Patrick Furey to Lady Clonbrock, 4 January 1916Letter from Jessie Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 19 April 1916Letter from John J. Thompson to Augusta Caroline Dillon, Lady Clonbrock, 13 November 1915Letter from Josephine Murray to Lady Clonbrock, 22 May 1916Letter from Elizabeth Francis Neill to Lady Clonbrock, 21 February 1916Letter from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 13 June 1916Postcard from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 16 May 1916Letter from Lady Clonbrock to Eliza Chamier, 24 May 1916Letter from George Hugh Chetwood Townsend to Lady Clonbrock, 1 April 1916Letter from Edith Francis Maxwell to Lady Clonbrock, 22 June 1916Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 2 August 1916Letter from Ursula Mahon to Lady Clonbrock, 18 July 1916Letter 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 1916Letter from the Marquess of Sligo to Lady Clonbrock, 23 October, 1916.Letter from Florence to Lady Clonbrock, 28 November 1916. Emma Armstrong Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 2 August 1916Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 26 June 1916