Letter from Fr Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 22 May 1918

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Letter from Fr Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 22 May 1918

1 32 B.G H. Amara 22 May 1918 Dear Father Provincial, Just a hasty line
to report progress. I am well on
the convalescent road, though still
officially a lying case. I was able to
hear Mass at Kut on Pentecost Sunday,
in pyjamas & dressing gown. I have had
a chat with an orderly here who knew
Fr Hartigan, & had a tremendous admiration
for him, because of the way in which he
looked out for the men, and stayed with
them when he found them. This lad is not
a Catholic either. Fr Hartigan's grave is
about a mile & a half from here. I hope to
be able to give you some particulars in my next. The address at top is only
temporary. I am on the way to Basra.
Would you please tell Fr Farley that my
masses for May are 0. I am writing
a separate note to him. But accidents etc.
I get the notices alone. FrsGannon & Hubert
today. R.I.P. F.M. Shaw S.J.

Letter from Francis M. Shaw (1881-1924) to the Father Provincial Thomas V Nolan (1867-1941) regarding Francis M. Shaw's talk with Father Hartigon and his zero masses for the May.Francis, or Frank, Shaw SJ was born in Ennis, county Clare. He was ordained on 31 July 1916 at Milltown Park, Dublin. Fr Shaw joined the war early in 1916, working in the 16th General Field Hospital at Le Tréporte. In 1917, possibly due to his nationalistic views, Fr Shaw was dispatched to India, and later to Mesopotamia.Fr. Thomas V. Nolan was the Provincial of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus (1912-1922) and was a member of the Distribution Committee which looked after the welfare and distribution of the Belgian refugees who arrived in Ireland as a consequence of the First World War.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__1168.html)