Letter from Michael Governey to Major General, Army Veterinary Service, 10 January 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Michael Governey

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Letter from Michael Governey providing personal references for Patrick Alphonsus Carroll.

 Pat Carroll Private Collection, Carroll_Pat_6 https://letters1916.ie/item/1693 English Michael Governey 1916-01-10 Barrowville, Carlow, Co. Carlow, Ireland Major General, Army Veterinary Service London, England Male World War I (1914-1918) World War I (1914-1918)

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 January 10 1916 Major General Director General A.V.S. London Dear Sir , In reply to your inquiry I desire to say I have known Mr. P.A.Carroll M.R.C.V.S since he took up residence in Carlow which is now some few years ago. I believe he had first qualified at the time. I have much pleasure in stating that he is a young man of exemplary character, rather trustworthy, and in my opinion, in every way fit for the position he's seeking. I may also say, as regards his professional knowledge, that he stands very high in the estimation of his numerous clients. Personally I trust he will be successful in obtaining the Commission which he as applied for as I am convinced he is in every way fit for the position and further more that he will never sully if appointed Yours respectfully Michael Governey London, England Letter from Lancelot Worthy Horne to Robert Chalmers 31, May 1916Letter from Edward O'Farrell to Bertram Cubitt, 10 June 1916Letter from Lancelot Worthy Horne to Command Paymaster, 8 May 1916Telegram from Basil Home Thomson, Assistant Commissioner at New Scotland Yard, to Sir Neville Chamberlain, 9 April 1916Letter from Sir Edward O'Farrell to Sir Reginald H Brade, War Office, 12 November 1915Letter from John Condon to Herbert Samuel, 17 June 1916Letter from Matthew Nathan to the Treasury, 3 March 1916Letter from Lady Henrietta MacDonnell to Lady Clonbrock, 23 September 1916Postcard from C.D. Groom to Lady Clonbrock, 1 March 1916Letter from Lady Henrietta MacDonnell to Lady Clonbrock, 28 October 1916Letter from Colonel Douglas Proby, to Matthew Nathan, 25 February 1916Letter from Herbert Samuel to Lord Wimbourne, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 15 February 1916Letter from Colonel Douglas Proby to Augustine Birrell, 26 January 1916Letter from Labour Party of Bruff, Co. Limerick to British PM H.H. Asquith, February 1916Letter by Edward O'Farrell to R.J. Nugent, 29 February 1916Letter from the Controller, Foreign Trade Department, to Sir Matthew Nathan, 19 February 1916Telegram from James Davidson to Samuel and Clara Davidson, 8 April 1916Letter from William Haldane Porter to Edward O'Farrell, 1 January 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to M.J. Murphy MP, 11 November 1916Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Mabel FitzGerald, 25 May 1916Letter from Michael Governey to Major General, Army Veterinary Service, 10 January 1916Letter from Henry Lawson to Director General, Army Veterinary Service, 18 January 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Cecil Harmsworth, 1 April 1916.Letter from Cecil Harmsworth to Augustine Birrell, 31 March 1916Letter from Edward O'Farrell to the Secretary, General Post Office, London, 1 June 1916 Telegram from the Managing Editor, Central News to the Secretary, Dublin Castle, 20 May 1916Letter from Celia Duffin to Auntie D, 3 December 1915Letter from Maria Duffin to Celia Duffin, 13 February 1916Letter from Father Edward Murnane to George Gavan Duffy, 24 July 1916Letter from Laurence Ginnell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 19 May 1916Card from Father Bally to the editor of the Irish Citizen, 2 November 1915Letter from Art Ó Briain to The Commandant, Frongoch Internment Camp 8 September 1916Letter from Art Ó Briain to John J Neeson, 4 September 1916Letter from James O' Dwyer to Art Ó Briain, 31 August 1916Letter from J E Lyons to Miss Coates, 5 July 1916Postcard to Edward Carson, 4 May 1916Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Sir William Henry Thompson, 2 February 1918Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Herbert Eldon Roaf, 14 March 1919Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Captain J.C. O'Farrell, 11 June 1919Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Mrs. R.J. Quin, 30 September 1919Letter from Paddy Guinness to Cesca Chenevix Trench, 6 June 1916Telegram from Basil Home Thomson, the Assistant Commissioner of Police, to Sir Neville Chamberlain, 8 April 1916Letter from Henry Wilson to James Craig, 1922 Barrowville, Carlow, Co. Carlow, Ireland Letter from Michael Governey to Major General, Army Veterinary Service, 10 January 1916 Michael Governey Letter from Michael Governey to Major General, Army Veterinary Service, 10 January 1916