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POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS
(Office of Origin and Service Instructions) 98 Brixton Road GHMS
1044 Centl
(Handed in at) 10.19 (Received here at) 10.35 (TO) Bannister Cheyne Club, 11 Oakley St Chelsea Your sister and yourself may
visit your cousin today between
11 and 12.30 this morning
ring 132 Brixton whether coming
Prison Brixton
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Prison Telegrams
A telegram from Brixton Prison, London, to Gertrude Bannister (later Parry, d. 1950),
a cousin of Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916). The telegram informs her that she can
visit Casement that day between 11 and 12.30am. It was sent while Casement was imprisoned
in Brixton after he had been arrested while landing on the coast of Kerry in a submarine
on the eve of the Easter Rising. Bannister was heavily involved in raising public
support for Casement during his trial for treason.