Letter from Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 10 May 1919

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Letter from Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 10 May 1919

1 Transit Camp
Suez 10 May 1919 Dear Fr Provincial,
P.C. Arrived Suez yesterday. Am
awaiting orders for Port Said. No knowing
how long we shall be detained here or
there. Shall continue to report progress. I said 20 Masses for FrFarley in April. Yours in Christ, Frances M. Shaw S.J.

Letter from Francis M. Shaw to the Father Provincial regarding Francis M. Shaw's journey to Port Said. Francis M. Shaw worked in the 16th General Field Hospital at Le Tréporte. He was ordained on 31st July 1916 at Milltown Park in Dublin and in 1917 was dispatched to India, and later to Mesopotamia, possibly due to his nationalistic views. Fr. Thomas V. Nolan (1867-1941) was the Provincial of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus (1912-1922) and was a member of the Distribution Committee which looked after the welfare and distribution of the the Belgian refugees who arrived in Ireland as a consequence of the First World War.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__4514.html)