Letter from Hugh de Fellenberg Montgomery to Hamilton, 10 June 1916

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Letter from Hugh de Fellenberg Montgomery to Hamilton, 10 June 1916

1 Copy 16th June, 1916. My dear Hamilton, By all means send Colonel Irvine's letter to Colonel
Welby. Keep a copy. I suppose you had better tell Colonel Welby that you
will bring his letter before the County Council at its next
meeting, which will be in August, and that meanwhile the
Soldiers' and Sailors' Families and Help Societies can continue
to carry on the work. You might add that you do not
think the Council is at all likely to agree to modify their
scheme, but you enclose Colonel Irvine's letter with regard
to the A.O.H. Colonel Irvine has done all the work of the
Soldiers and Sailors' Families Society hitherto, and you
do not see how it would be possible to run the proposed
Committee without his assistance, There are no co-operative
or benefit Societies in Tyrone except purely local Creamery
and Flax Societies, the constitution and objects of which
do not appear to entitle them to special representation on
a War Pension Committee. Yours very truly,

This is a copy of a letter from Hugh de Fellenberg Montgomery (1844-1924) to Hamilton. Originally a Liberal and a strong supporter of Gladstone, Montgomery was also a firm Unionist, but by 1916 he believed that Ulster Unionists had no choice but to accept Lloyd George's proposal for a six-county Northern Ireland. In this letter, Hamilton discusses letters regarding Colonel Henry Irvine (1850-1928), the chief recruiting officer for Tyrone, and Colonel John Arthur Welby (b. 1874). Montgomery states that Welby should be informed that a letter he sent will be brought before the county council in August and until then families of soldiers and help societies should continue their work. Montgomery believes that it would not be possible to set up a benefit committee without him. Montgomery also notes the lack of co-operative and benefit societies in Tyrone.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__2239.html)