1 To His Excellency Field Marshal Sir JOHN DENTON
PINKSTONE FRENCH, Viscount of YPRES and HIGH LAKE,
Lord Lieutonant General and General Governor of
Ireland May it please You Excellency, WE, the President and Fellows of the Royal College of
Ph sicians of Ireland, desire to approach Your Excellency

upon your arrival in this country as Representative of
His Host Gracious Majesty the King, with a cordial
welcome and an expression of our devoted attachment
to the Throne and Empire. At this moment the forces of our King, drawn from
all parts of his Empire, are engaged in a deadly
struggle with our common foe for the defence of
homes and liberty, we welcome the opportunity of
expressing to you our unwavering attachment to the
Empire and our confidence in the ultimate triumph of
of the cause for which our People and Allies are
fighting. In this great cause the Fellows, Members and Licentiates
of this College are willingly taking their part both 2 at home abroad, endeavouring, as far as in them lies,
to bring health and healing those who have suffered,
and to ward off those attacks of disease which have so
often proved the most dangerous enemies of armies in the
field. A considerable number of the Fellows and
Members of the College are serving with His Majesty's forces
and of those who have obtained the License of the College
since the outbreak of the war some ninety per cent have
entered either the Naval or Military Service. In lending what aid they can in this the common danger the
President and Fellows feel that they are merely carrying
on the great tradition of their College handed down to
them by their predecessors since its foundation by King Charles the second. We desire to assure Your Excellency of our readiness
to afford to His Majesty and to his Government our
hearty assistance in this time of the Empire's peril
and to express again loyalty to His Throne. 7th June 1918 President Registrar