note / T.M. Gick, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, WWI

Typescript letter from the Headquarters of the 16th Divion at Mallow, informing candiates of the lack of opportunity for temporary commissions in the Junior ranks of the units of the 16th Division, and suggesting enlistment in the 7th Ballation Leinster Regiment, . Accompanying note from Rennie to Gick (Private Gick) requests he transfer to the 7th Leinster, where General parsons will want to see his work before recommending. Dated 16 November 1914. Thomas Malley Gick, born in Dublin to C. Hemsley of Sandymount, Co. Dublin. Educated at Grammar School, Kingstown. Clerk at the Great Southern and Western Railway. Gazetted Second Lieutenant 14th Battalion Manchester Regiment December 1914, but attached attached to 14th Kilng's Liverpool Regiment. At Salonika. Joined 7th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, served with them from 26 October to 11 December 1914, before promotion to serve with other units. He was in later life Secretary of the Claremont Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, Molesworth Street, Dublin. Also Registrar of the King's Hospital School, Blackhall Place, Dublin. He lived at Corrivreckon, Glenageary Road, Glenageary, Co. Dublin.;