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prayer book / The War as a Guide to Haeven [sic]

Prayer book, 'The War as a Guide to Haeven [sic] - A little English Prayer Book for the use of Roman Catholic Soldiers living now in Germany'. Issued to Prisoners of War held in Germany during World War I. Includes writings on the ethics of killing in wartime, and the duties of the Catholic...

 

parole card / H.E.F. Hall, Connaught Rangers, 1918

Parole card of 2nd Lieutenant H.E.F. Hall, 6th Reserve Battalion, Connaught Rangers. Passport sized card (torn and now in two pieces), German on one side, English on the other. The printed card gives 2nd Lieutenant Hall's word of honour not to try and escape while temporarily paroled from his POW...

 

form / Lieutenant H.E.F. Hall, 1919

Official Correspondence to 2nd Lieutenant H.E.F. Hall, 6th Reserve Battalion, dated 10th May 1919. From the War Office stating that after an official enquiry his statement regarding his surrender was accepted, and no blame is attached to him. The names members of the Standing Committee of Enquiry...

 

letter / Lieutenant H.E.F. Hall, 1918

Framed letter from King George to 2nd Lieutenant H.E.F. Hall welcoming him back from prison camp. 1918. On Buckingham Palace paper. "The Queen joins me in welcoming you on your release from the miseries and hardships, which you have endured with so much patience and courage. During these many...

 

poster / Frongoch, 1916

Poster from prisoner of war camp, Frongoch, Wales. Printed sheet, c.22 inches by 17.5 inches headed "Post Verordnungen / Lager fuer Kriegsgefangene / Frongoch". In German. No date, c. 1916

 

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 / Frongoch, 1916

Copy book written by a German prisoner of war in Frongoch Prison Camp, 1916. The camp was occupied by Germans previous to arrival of Irish prisoners. Mostly headlines and single words; some addresses. Picked up by Patrick Ronan in Frongoch, 1916.