Letter from J. Jackson to Lady Clonbrock, August 1916

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Letter from J. Jackson to Lady Clonbrock, August 1916

1 Dear Lady Clonbrock Many thanks for Cigarettes which I
received in good condition, I am in good
health again, having just returned from Hospital
after a stay of 3 weeks.
Thanking you once more for your favour. I remain
BrSeddlis J Jackson. At the request of the Authorities.
In thanking the donor, please do not mention your unit. 2 POST CARD
A Request
Most of these post cards
will naturally be returned to
the folks at home who are
sending the tobacco and
cigarettes.
And if the message on
this postcard is of more than
personal interest, then the
friend who receives this
post card would greatly help
the good work by sending
it to the Organizer of the
Tobacco Fund.
It would probably help
the Organizer to stimulate
further subscriptions, and â€”
a lot more money is reâ€”
quired to keep up supplies
to the brave men.
Weekly Dispatch
Tobacco fund
Carmelite House,
London, E. C.
14 Lady Clonbrock, Clonbrock, Ahascragh, Co. Galway, Ireland.

Letter from a prisoner of war, J. Jackson, Connaught Rangers, to Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928). The letter thanks Lady Clonbrock for cigarettes she had sent via the 'Tobacco Fund' in London. The fund was managed by the 'Weekly Dispatch' newspaper to supply cigarettes to servicemen in the British army and the postcard would have been received by the soldier with the cigarettes. In earlier cards, soldiers gave their unit information but this was stopped by the British authorities for security reasons.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__1427.html)