Letter from Samuel Shaw to his father, James Shaw, requesting that his father send him some cigarettes as they are running low and the French ones are too strong. Samuel supposes that the town must be empty now as may of the Port boys seem to be coming out in a draft from the 13th Battalion. Samuel Henry Shaw (1896-1967) was a sergeant with the 10th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He volunteered for active service in September 1914. Before enlisting Samuel was a member of the Portstewart Company, Coleraine Battalion, North Derry Regiment, Ulster Volunteer Force. Samuel served in France, and was wounded during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 and again in early 1917 and in 1918. Before the War he was employed as a ironmonger's assistant. James Shaw was a local fisherman in the town of Portstewart.