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Friday THE PRIORY,
CHRISTCHURCH, HANTS. Dearest Twee - I hear
Tuesday - is the 50th
anniversary of 8 wedding
day - I just write -; a
letter of love & greeting
How well I remember the
day - && the queer place -
&yards - && the Evening
drive thru Roscommon -
&& now life is drawing
2
to a close - how that
it all seems looking
back. Now all we
have is looking .Forward.
& there we have a
bright look out. - one that will never end.
I have found the peerage
full of mercies & pleasures
as well as sorrows.&trials
&I fancy you have
done the same - What
a comfort Arlliue is it
not in these terrible times
It is all too horrible
Twee. Trying to kill as
many of their fellow
creatures as possible -
we have.crowds. of soldiers
Barracks full of Artillery
men - a camp of
"South Midlands". & a
camp of 500. Australians
sleek fine looking men.
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&a lot of Canadians RE'S
I was talking to 2 on
Sunday night. V. Victoria
Vancouver I learned - one
a gentleman I think
He was a Civil Engineer -
&Surveyor . for the district
knew salt Spring Island
the Harbours where on his
beat - but did not know
the 2 officers - left a wife &
5. children - a Yorkshire
man - with love & best
wishes to Jon &
& aff. SWC
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The
Lady Clonbrock. 10 Cadogan Gardens S.W Ans.d
July 21.
Letter to Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928) reminiscing over the evening of Clonbrock's wedding
in light of her approaching golden wedding anniversary.
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.