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ans? —
that part hopes
shd: send him
£10 for "immediate distress"— Renmore Barracks
Galway Sep 7th 1916 Dear Lady Clonbrock, An ex Conn: Ranger,
who lost his eye at the
front, had to be sent
for treatment to Dublin;
to save the other eye; I
managed this at the
cost of £2=6=0, through
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Dr, Kinkead's kind
assistance at a cost of £2=6=0. A
Leinster Regt. man named
Gill was also assisted
with ten shillings to cover
period during which his
pension was being reassessed;
this man has lost a leg.
I suggest that our War
Fund should defray these
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expenses. If you authorize
it, the Committee can confirm it. All men in similar
circumstances come to
me. Could not some
less cumbersome method
be adopted to relieve
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1916
Sep. 7 — immediate distress? Yrs sincerely, H. D. Chamier.
This letter is from Henry Deschamps Chamier to Augusta Caroline Dillon (née Crofton).
Lady Clonbrock (1840-1928) was a member of the Irish Women's Association, which was
set up to provide aid and assistance to Irish regiments and to Irish members of the
British army who were being held in prisoner of war camps. Chamier was a colonel serving
in the First World War with the Connaught Rangers.
Chamier writes about the case of two wounded soldiers, one who had an operation to
save an eye and another who was assisted with ten shillings. She asks that the association's
funds cover the costs and that a procedure be set up for similar cases.