photograph album / Private Joseph McEnroe, Royal Irish Fusiliers, WWI
photograph album / Private Joseph McEnroe, Royal Irish Fusiliers, WWI
photograph album / Private Joseph McEnroe, Royal Irish Fusiliers, WWI
photograph album / Private Joseph McEnroe, Royal Irish Fusiliers, WWI
photograph album / Private Joseph McEnroe, Royal Irish Fusiliers, WWI
photograph album / Private Joseph McEnroe, Royal Irish Fusiliers, WWI
photograph album / Private Joseph McEnroe, Royal Irish Fusiliers, WWI
Private Joseph McEnroe, Royal Irish Fusiliers, WWI
WWI photograph album kept by Private Joseph McEnroe, 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. and sometime prisoner of war. Including: a photograph of himself as P.O.W. at Gettorf 1918; of his brother Thomas, wounded at Ypres, at Manchester Hospital with two others; seven picture postcards of Gettorf and one, coloured, of a bridge in Germany; one black and white of Kiel and one coloured of Ostceebad Heikendorf; two French propaganda coloured postcards "Gloire Aux Allies" and "La Marseillaise 1915"; one postcard of a Tyrolean wayside shrine; one of a stage set of a P.O.W. production at Gettorf and one of the cast – their names and regiments on pencil on back; three cloth cards sent to his wife whilst on service - "Honneur Au Canon" crossed flags 1914-1915 and crossed flags 1915, photo of Gustrow cemetery for 'prisoners of war who died from starvation'; one coloured card "Vaillant Belge - Merci!" sent to his wife; one black and white of a group of the Middlesex Regiment; one coloured card depicting the liner in which he was brought home from Germany 1918; postcard photo of four P.O.W.s at Gettorf named at back two ex. Royal Irish Fusiliers one ex. West Yorkshire and one Middlesex; one of French and Belgian P.O.W.s with luggage at Gustrow; one of a group of nine P.O.W.s and one of another nine; one sent in 1929 of Bad Wildungen; one of drama group and another of soccer team 1918 at Gettorf; one of three P.O.W.s addressed to Mrs E. Somers; one of Woodland Road, Cheetham, sent to Private Thomas McEnroe in hospital in Manchester in November 1915; one coloured prison yard type scene of P.O.W.s at Gettorf.;
Private Joseph McEnroe, Royal Irish Fusiliers, WWI
Object Number:
HA:1986.17
Institution:
NMI
Date:
1918
Creator:
Place of production:
Ireland
Collections:
Exhibitions:
Subjects:
- Bad Wildungen, Hesse, Germany
- Gettorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Gustrow, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
- Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- World War I