Letter from Lady Mayo to Lady Clonbrock, 28 December, 1915.

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Letter from Lady Mayo to Lady Clonbrock, 28 December, 1915.

1 Returned
letters & said
J. C. had been on
county list for months
&all C.R. Prisoners were
well looked after —
Dec. 31 —
1915 Telegraph
Johnstown, Kildare Station
Sallins. Palmerstown,
Straffan,
Co. Kildare. Dec 28. Dear Lady Clonbrock I was sent the name of
3237 Pt. Joseph Connolly
Connaught Rangers
no. 5 kompagnie group 34
Zivilgefangenen Langer
Senne 1 Sennelagerbec
Panerborn— Germany
asking to have parcels sent
to him as he only had
an old mother who was
too poor to send him much. As my Committee only 2 look after the Dublin Fusiliers
we cd. not help from
our fund —but in case
he was in want, I sent
him myself a parcel
on Dec. 7 & 18 containing
tea, coffee & milk, condensed
milk, cheese & herrings in
tomatoe sauce & another
will go on Thurs next —
also bread from Berne
for 6 weeks from Dec 7 Will your committee
now take him on? I enclose the letters from
Mrs. Shaw about him. Yours Sincerely Geraldine Mayo 3 1915
Joseph Connolly
has been on county
list for months

This is a letter from Geraldine Sarah Bourke (née Ponsonby), Lady Mayo (1863-1944) to Augusta Caroline Dillon (née Crofton), Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928). Lady Clonbrock, wife of Luke Gerald Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock (1834-1917) was a member of the Irish Women's Association. Formed in London in the Spring of 1915, the IWA's purpose was to provide food and comforts for prisoners of war belonging to Irish Regiments. Lady Mayo(1863-1944), was a committee member in The Royal Dublin Fusiliers' County Kildare Committee. The Committee dealt with parcels for RDF prisoners of war abroad. This letter concerns Private Joseph Connolly, a Connaught Rangers P.O.W., who has been the subject of ongoing correspondence. Even though Lady Mayo's organisation only looks after Dublin Fusiliers, she sent parcels to this man on request because his mother was old and poor and couldn't send him much. The writer now wants the know if Lady Clonbrock's organisation will take him over. The enclosed letter mentioned has not survived. A note on the letter, presumably by Lady Clonbrock, reads notes the response given to Lady Mayo's letter.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__1539.html)