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.
Victory Medal / Summerland, 1/18th Battalion London Regiment, London Irish Rifles
Medal. Victory Medal. 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...
photograph / 2nd Lieutenant Richard F.R. Nugent
Posed photo of 2nd Lieutenant Richard F.R. Nugent of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in hunting attire, seated on a horse.
case / Lieutenant Richard Francis Nugent, WWI
Medal, 1914/15 Star, of 2nd Lieutenant Richard Francis Nugent, Scots Guards. In case with World War I medals: Inscribed on outside: 2nd Lieut. R.F.R. Nugent, Missing 18-19 December 1914. Inside: Three medals, 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Allied Victory Medal, all inscribed to 2nd Lieutenant...
case / Lieutenant Richard Francis Nugent, WWI
Medal, British War Medal, of 2nd Lieutenant Richard Francis Nugent, Scots Guards. In case with World War I medals: Inscribed on outside: 2nd Lieut. R.F.R. Nugent, Missing 18-19 December 1914. Inside: Three medals, 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Allied Victory Medal, all inscribed to 2nd...
case / Lieutenant Richard Francis Nugent, WWI
Medal, Victory Medal, of 2nd Lieutenant Richard Francis Nugent, Scots Guards. In case with World War I medals: Inscribed on outside: 2nd Lieut. R.F.R. Nugent, Missing 18-19 December 1914. Inside: Three medals, 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Allied Victory Medal, all inscribed to 2nd Lieutenant...
calling card / Lieutenant Richard Francis Nugent, WWI
Calling card, of 2nd Lieutenant Richard Francis Nugent, Scots Guards. Guards Club, Kildare Street Club, Dublin. In case with World War I medals: Inscribed on outside: 2nd Lieut. R.F.R. Nugent, Missing 18-19 December 1914. Inside: Three medals, 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Allied Victory...
calling card / Lieutenant Richard Francis Nugent, WWI
Calling card, of 2nd Lieutenant Richard Francis Nugent, Scots Guards. Stacumny, Celbridge. , Kildare Street Club, Dublin. In case with World War I medals: Inscribed on outside: 2nd Lieut. R.F.R. Nugent, Missing 18-19 December 1914. Inside: Three medals, 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Allied...
calling card / Lieutenant Richard Francis Nugent, WWI
Calling card, of 2nd Lieutenant Richard Francis Nugent, Scots Guards. Kildare Street Club, Dublin. In case with World War I medals: Inscribed on outside: 2nd Lieut. R.F.R. Nugent, Missing 18-19 December 1914. Inside: Three medals, 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Allied Victory Medal, all...
photograph / 2nd Lieutenant Richard Nugent
Photograph, studio portrait of 2nd Lieutenant Richard Nugent in Scots Guards' uniform. Photograph by C. Vandyk of 37 Buckingham Palace Road, and 125 Gloucester Road, London S.W.
1914-15 Star / McClelland, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, WWI
World War I medal, 1914-15 Star, British Army, of Private John McClelland, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, no. 20111.
Victory Medal / McClelland, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, WWI
World War I Allied Victory Medal, British Army, of Private John McClelland, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, no. 20111.
tray / O'Meagher, Royal Munster Fusiliers
Royal Munster Fusiliers silver ashtray presented by Captain Bt. Major K O'Meagher to the Regimental Mess. It has the Munster Fusiliers crest, an inscription indicating they were donated by O'Meagher and the date August 1902.One of two with this date.
ring / Royal Munster Fusiliers, WWI
Silver napkin ring holder inscribed 'V.C.Y' - initials of relative of Markey family. Also inscribed 'Sommes 1916, Messines, 1917, Ypres 1917, and Poel Chappelle 1918, March 1918'. Battle hounours of the 8th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers.
button / Markey Family, WWI
Ribbon with Royal Munster Fusiliers, Naval Division and King Edward Horse buttons attached (obviously denoting the three Markey brother’s service).
medal / Sgt M. Cullen
British Service Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct awarded to No. 5983, Sgt M. Cullen of the Royal Irish Regiment. 16th (Irish) Division, WWI. No ribbon.
medal / Alderney Challenge, 1911-1912
Alderney Challenge medal 1911-1912, engraved on the back is 'Sgt M. Cullen'. Royal Irish Regiment, 16th Division (Irish).
recruitment poster / To the Recruiting Office, WWI
World War I recruiting poster or sign, with a large red arrow on white background. ‘To the Recruiting Office’. Printed Alex Thomas & Co. Ltd., Dublin. Associated with William Egan of the Royal Army Medical Corps
book / Stand To, 1937
Copy of “Stand To”,a Diary of the Trenches 1915-18, by Captain Francis Clere Hitchcock. 2nd edition, March 1937. Three newspaper reviews inserted in book
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...