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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.
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photograph / Harold Barton Mansfield, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, c. 1916
Mounted studio photograph of Harold Barton Mansfield, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, seated in uniform c. 1916. Killed in the Somme November 1916.
scarf / John McLoughlin, Royal Irish Rifles, 1918
Hand knitted brown woollen scarf worn in trenches in WWI by Private John McLoughlin 6680 Royal Irish Rifles. According to family research, John had been injured on 7th July 1916 at the Somme. He had received serious injuries to his spine and later died on 22nd September 1918. Officially aged 21 (he...
British War Medal / Thomas Kettle, R.D.F., WWI
British War Medal, 1914 - 1918, of Tom Kettle. One of two World War I medals of Lt Thomas Michael Kettle, Royal Dublin Fusiliers (9th February 1880 to 9th September 1916) . Kettle attended college in UCD, became a barrister in 1905, was elected as a MP in 1906, and served till 1910. In 1908 he...
Victory Medal / Thomas Kettle, R.D.F., WWI
Victory Medal, 1914 - 1919, of Tom Kettle. One of two World War I medals of Lt Thomas Michael Kettle, Royal Dublin Fusiliers (9th February 1880 to 9th September 1916) . Kettle attended college in UCD, became a barrister in 1905, was elected as a MP in 1906, and served till 1910. In 1908 he...
poem / Thomas Kettle, R.D.F., WWI
Poem by Lt Thomas Michael Kettle (Tom Kettle) to his daughter Elisabeth. Framed. One of two World War I medals of Lt Thomas Michael Kettle, Royal Dublin Fusiliers (9th February 1880 to 9th September 1916) . Kettle attended college in UCD, became a barrister in 1905, was elected as a MP in 1906,...
pickelhaube / Germany, 1914-16
Other Ranks' helmet, pickelhaube, German, c.1914-1916. Kingdom of Bavaria. Retrieved from Thiepval, Somme Sector, 1st July 1916, first day of the Battle of the Somme. Leather with brass fittings and plate, inscribed 'IN TREUE FEST' (In Loyalty Steadfast). Spike missing. Bullet hole to right temple.
postcard photograph / John Loder, 1945
Postcard photograph of John Loder, c. 1945. Loder was born William John Muir Lowe, the son of Brigadier General William Henry Muir Lowe. Loder was his father's Aid de Camp in Dublin during the week of the Easter Rising, 1916, and was present at the surrender. He had previous served with the 15th...