Letter from Irish Jesuit Chaplain, Fr Patrick Morris SJ (1882-1966) to Father Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ (1867-1941) written from the Officers’ Mess at 2/8 Battalion, L.F., Sobraon Barracks, Colchester, England. Morris claims he has survived an attack by two Zeppelins. One has been downed and “is lying a wreck in a field seven miles from here”. He cycled over and found it “just like an enormous skinned crocodile … all of Essex turned up in vehicles of every description … The crowd was very quiet”. He adds that “Airships are flying about all day in every direction”. He “is very happy here …. I am treated with the greatest kindness at the Mess and feel very much at home”. He expects he will be “packed off soon” but “is in no hurry to go”. He feels he is “in the Lord’s hands”. Patrick Morris attended the Model school in Enniskillen, where his father, Charles was the first headmaster in this multi-denominational school. Finishing his education at St MacCartan’s Seminary, Monaghan, Patrick entered the Jesuits whereupon he went to Australia and spent six years teaching at Xavier College, Kew. On returning from Australia, he was a chaplain for three years. He spent a year at the front before been sent back to England in November 1917, suffering from ‘clinical dysentery.’ After recuperation, he was stationed at Retford and Clipstone Camp in Nottinghamshire. In 1919, he taught at Mungret College and moved on to Belvedere College in 1924 where he spent 12 years, some as Rector. Further years were spent in Emo and then in 1943, Clongowes Wood College.