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.
souvenir / German, Templemore, World War I
Metal army supply water flask, made in Berlin, engraved and decorated as German Prisoner of War Art at Templemore Prisoner of War Camp, Ireland, World War I, by Albert Skirde, dated 15 October 1914. Front decorated with the German Eagle, with scroll reading 'Mit Gott fur Koenig und Vaterland'....
souvenir / German, Templemore, World War I
Metal army supply cup, German made. Engraved and decorated as German Prisoner of War Art at Templemore Prisoner of War Camp, Ireland, World War I, by Max Schmidt, dated 1914 (probably around October). Three other names inscribed - H. Strubing, R. Balzke and Fritz Girnt. Front with a pair of antlers...
service certificate / Irish Ambulance Corps
Irish Ambulance Corps, one of three certificates of service for Volunteers from the Irish Ambulance Service of France. (Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871). For James McKinna of Dublin. Part of a display of Irish Ambulance Corps memorabilia, connected to Mr. J. O'Scanlan, including four photographs...
cap band / Irish Ambulance Corps
Franco-Prussian Irish Ambulance Corps, c. 1870. Linen hat or cap band for the Volunteers from the Irish Ambulance Service of France. (Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871). 'Ambulance Irlandaise'.
photograph / Irish Ambulance Corps
Irish Ambulance Corps, photograph of a group of Volunteers, Irish Ambulance Service of France. (Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871) Papers, Irish Ambulance Corps, three certificates for Volunteers from the Irish Ambulance Service of France. (Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871) - 144.1. 144.2 - two...
photograph / Irish Ambulance Corps
Irish Ambulance Corps, photograph of a group of doctors from the Irish Ambulance Service of France. (Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871) These are Doctor Baxter, Doctor Ryan, Doctor Thompson, Doctor Widdup, and Monsieur Picard (?), c. 1870. Papers, Irish Ambulance Corps, three certificates for...
photograph / Irish Ambulance Corps
Irish Ambulance Corps, photograph of two members of the Corps, Irish Ambulance Service of France. (Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871) Papers, Irish Ambulance Corps, three certificates for Volunteers from the Irish Ambulance Service of France. (Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871) - 144.1. 144.2 - two...
photograph / Marshal MacMahon
Irish Ambulance Corps, photograph of a Volunteer (possibly Marshal McMahon). Irish Ambulance Service of France. (Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871). Papers, Irish Ambulance Corps, three certificates for Volunteers from the Irish Ambulance Service of France. (Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871) - 144.1....
handbill / Franco Prussian War, 1870
Printed circular from the French Ministry of the Interior. Sent to the Prefets and the Sous-Prefets. Paris, 3/9/1870. Franco-Prussian War. Communique telling of the capture of the Emperor and of McMahon's Army and the determination to defend Paris.
full dress tunic / Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Col. H.T. Finlay
Officer's full dress tunic of 5th Militia Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, c.1902 to 1914. Officer's scarlet full dress tunic of 5th Militia Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, c.1902 to 1914 with dark blue facings and gold lace. There are fourteen large gilt buttons and two small versions on the...
cap badge / Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, WWI
Cap badge of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces. First World War. Bronze.
cap badge / Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, WWI
Cap badge of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces. First World War. Bronze.
photograph album / 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...
book / The Royal Dublin Fusiliers Engagement Book, 1910
Copy of Major Arthur E. Mainwaring’s ‘The Royal Dublin Fusiliers Engagement Book’. Listing the engagements involving the regiment from the late 1600s to the late 1900s. Published in Aldershot, 1910.
hat / Other Rank’s busby of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers c.1910
Busby, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Other rank’s black racoon skin fur busby of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers c.1910. The badge is in the form of a brass grenade with the Castle of Enniskillen on the centre and Inniskilling on the circular belt. On the left side a grey hackle. The chin chain is...
pouch / Billy can, WWI
Billy can, World War I period, in khaki green pouch, with two leather straps and attachment ring at back. British made mass produced army equipment. One strap stamped G4EX777, the other has '1907 [?] ..ck' in ink.
commission / T.M. Gick, 14th Manchester Regiment December 1914
Commission, dated 18 December 1914, of Thomas Malley Gick as Temporary 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Malley Gick to the Land Forces. 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...
case /
Glass bottle or flask with silver metal cap, contained in a leather case with straps. Officer's equipment. Probably late 1800s, early 1900s.
1914-15 Star / Summerland, 1/18th Battalion London Regiment, London Irish Rifles
Medal. 1914-15 Star. Of Private Ralph Thomas Summerland, 1/18th Battalion London Regiment, London Irish Rifles. Killed in action in France on 21 October 1915. (2139 Private 18th Battalion London Regiment), British War and Victory medals (2139 Private, 18th Battalion London Regiment) Extremely Fine.