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

Two letters, typescript, from C. Hemsley Gick, to his son Thomas M. Gick, re seeing Sir William in relation to Gick's commission. Dated 1 December 1914, on the headed paper of the Irish Medical Association, Royal College of Surgeons, Diublin. Encloses copy of letter to the Director of Military Training, dated 1 December 1914, with which he enclosed Form M.T. / 393. States that Gick, in accordance with General Parson's wishes, enlisted and has been at the Curragh for the previous 30 days. 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.;