Letter from Joseph Connolly, 5 April 1916

Foo, Bar; Bar, Foo

Letter from Joseph Connolly, 5 April 1916

1 Bureau de secours aux prisonniers de guerre SECTION ANGLAISE BERNE Sennelager 5-4-16 I wish to acknowledge
with thanks, receipt
of two breads from Bureau
this day. Yours truly 10760, Joseph Connolly
Connaught Rangers.
Please always give your Regiment and
Regimental No. 2 3237 Joseph Connolly, No.19 Company, Civil Camp, Sennelager, Paderborn, Germany. Right side Bureau de Secours aux Prisonniers de Guerre Section Anglaise Thunstrasse 50 Berne (Suisse)

A letter from a prisoner of war, Joseph Connolly, to Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928). Connolly writes a thank you for a package of bread that was sent to him by 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.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__1310.html)