Historical Collections Online
Search our Historical Collections Online, a sample of 10,000 artefacts from the National Museum of Ireland’s Historical, Military and Easter Week Collections, published as part of the Decade of Commemorations.
recruiting poster / Norah Pellew, MTC, WWII
One small A4 size recruiting poster for the Mechanised Transport Corps, depicting a drawing of a uniformed lady leaning against a car. Of Ensign/Driver Norah Pellew (MTC/ENSA) born near Oldcastle Co Meath, 1895. Member of the Motor Transport Corps, British Army, World War II.
photograph / Flying Officer Donald Garland, Victoria Cross
Portrait photograph of Flying Officer Donald Garland, Victoria Cross. Royal Air Force, World War II. Born in Ballinacorr Co. Wicklow, 28 / 6 / 1918. Died in action 12th May 1940. First R.A.F. winner of the VC.Plate on frame states ‘Presented to Garland House by Kingston Branch, British Legion,...
photograph album / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Photograph album with images taken at the Royal Herbert Hospital in Woolich, Samaritan Hospital, and the British Military General Hospital No. 8 Rouen, which operated from 1914 to 1919, also known as the Sick Sisters Hospital. Compiled by one of the Burrowes Sisters, who nursed there during the...photograph album / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Photograph album, containing photographs beginning in 1910, covering people and tourist scenes in ireland, Greece and Turkey, Italy including Pompeii, the Royal visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Ireland in 1911, and ending with photograph of the Burrowes sisters in nurses uniforms, and a...
letter / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Letter to The Hon Miss Burrows. From Oliver Nugent (?) to Anna Burrowes, dated 23 September 1915. From the Frensham Pond Hotel. With mention of the Ulster Division. Part of a collection relating to the Burrowes Sisters of Co. Cavan, Anna and Rosamund, nurses in the service during the period,...
letter / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Letter addressed to ‘My Dear Little Sister’, on the headed paper of the King Edward VIII Hospital for Officers at 9 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.1. Two pages back and front. Dated 4th November. From Arthur Harte-Synnot(?), informing her of his progress and thanking her for her kindness. In...
postcard / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Postcard photograph, showing icicles on huts at No 8 General Hospital, Rouen, during World War I. Part of a collection relating to the Burrowes Sisters of Co. Cavan, Anna and Rosamund, nurses in the service during the period, serving in Northern France at the British Military General Hospital No. 8...
prayer card / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Prayer card for Good Friday and Easter Day - Thoughts and Prayers for Soldiers at the Front, By the Bishop of London. World War I. Found loose in the Burrowes Rouen Hospital photograph album. Printed by A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., London and Oxford. No. 83. Part of a collection relating to the...
postcard photograph / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Postcard photograph, group of nursing staff at No.8 Hospital, Rouen, France. World War I. Printed in France. Found loose in the Burrowes Rouen Hospital photograph album. Part of a collection relating to the Burrowes Sisters of Co. Cavan, Anna and Rosamund, nurses in the service during the period,...
postcard photograph / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Postcard photograph, interior of a chapel, probably at No.8 Hospital, Rouen, France. Photographer's stamp on front - L. Hollman of Cheltenham. World War I. Found loose in the Burrowes Rouen Hospital photograph album. Part of a collection relating to the Burrowes Sisters of Co. Cavan, Anna and...
postcard photograph / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Postcard photograph, nursing staff and patients outside a row of huts at No.8 Hospital, Rouen, France. Taken during the winter. World War I. Printed in France. Found loose in the Burrowes Rouen Hospital photograph album. Part of a collection relating to the Burrowes Sisters of Co. Cavan, Anna and...
letter / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Letter in envelope, from London, 10 May 1945, sent to Miss Lucas Clements at Rathkenny, Coatehill, Co. Cavan. Addressed to Darling Mummy, from 'E'. Discussing V.E. Day, and locations of family members. Part of a collection relating to the Burrowes Sisters of Co. Cavan, Anna and Rosamund, nurses...
letter / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Letter addressed from the Officers Hospital Highgate, Millfield Lane, Highgate, N6 London. Dated 2 October. Addressed to Dear 'Nursey', from Edward H. Foster. Two pages front only. Thanking her for her kindness, and giving his regards to a Captain Gordon. In envelope addressed to Miss Burrows,...
newspaper cutting / Lieutenant Colonel S.U.L. Clements, WWI
Newspaper cutting with photograph of Lieutenant Colonel S.U.L. Clements, missing son of the late Mr. T.E.L. Clements, D.L., Rathkenny, Co Cavan. World War I. Clements was of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. Later found to be alive in a German POW Camp. c. 1918. Part of a collection relating to the...
letter / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Typed Letter, dated 28th April 1918, from the War Office at Whitehall, London, informing Mrs Clements that her son Lieutenant Colonel S.U.L. Clements of the Royal Irish Fusiliers is a POW in a German camp. Part of a collection relating to the Burrowes Sisters of Co. Cavan, Anna and Rosamund, nurses...
agreement / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Document aggreement relating to training at the Ulster Volunteer Hospital ‘Form of Agreement for Volunteer Aid Nurses’. Typed form signed by Rosamund C.C. Burrows, aged 23, with an address at Lismore, Crossclooney, Co. Cavan. Reference listed as the Right Honourable Mrs Burrowes of the same...
leaflet / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Peace Celebrations, printed leaflet; What to do on arrival in Belfast. Listing the Dos and Don't of the celebrations. Signed by Captain A.K.D. Hall, General Staff, Northern District. Printed by R. Carswell and Son Ltd., Belfast. World War I. Part of a collection relating to the Burrowes Sisters...
letter / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Letter in envelope to Mrs Burrows at Lismore, Crossclooney, Co. Cavan. Postmarked Malta on 13 September 1915. Two pages on the headed paper of the Royal Mail Steam Package Company. Addressed to Dearest Auntie Anna, discussing the route to St. Patrick's Camp Hospital, Malta. Signed (illegible),...
letter / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Letter addressed to Dear Madam, from Private G.A. West, no. 114260, on 11 August 1916. Thanking her for the recently received parcel. Part of a collection relating to the Burrowes Sisters of Co. Cavan, Anna and Rosamund, nurses in the service during the period, serving in Northern France at the...