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

Letter, handwritten, from Thomas M. Gick to the Adjutant of the 7th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers at the Curragh, dated 17 December 1914. In relation to his commission, requesting a copy of the communication from the War Office. On the back is a note from Hoey, Captain and Adjutant of 7th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, informing Gick of the date of receipt of the communication, which was attached. 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.;