Letter from John Burns to Lady Clonbrock, 20 July 1916

Foo, Bar; Bar, Foo

Letter from John Burns to Lady Clonbrock, 20 July 1916

1 Kriegsgefangenenlager Limburg, 25.6.1916. Dear Madam Just a few lines to let you know that
I am receiving the bread & food stuff
allright. Meat tin/fish/dripping/ 10
cigarettes packages 1/2lb tea & milk. All in
good condition. Wishing all the Ladies of the
Association quite well. I remain yours most respectfully, J.Burns This is yr. prisoner, not mine 2 Kriegsgefangenenlager
Limburg (Lahn).
This is my address: Name: John Burns Name of the Regt. Conn. Rangers Regt. No. 3036 2 Batt. 6 Comp., No. 554 Prisoners of War Camp Limburg an der Lahn, Germany. Right side Kriegsgefangenenâ€”
Sendung. Adresse:
To The Honourable
Mrs. Mahon, Black Rock HouseCastlegar, Ahascragh Galway, Co.Galway, Ireland.

A Letter from a prisoner of war, John Burns, Connaught Rangers, to Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928). Burns was incarcerated in Limburg, Germany at the time of writing. He writes to thank Lady Clonbrock for the food parcels she sent him through the Irish Women's Association. A note written at the margin of the letter indicates the letter was written to a Mrs Mahon before it was passed on to Lady Clonbrock.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.

John Burns
Lady Clonbrock (Augusta Caroline Dillon (née Crofton)
1916-07-20
World War I (1914-1918)

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__0968.html)