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ABSI - Jesuits in Britain Archives
- SJ - Members of the Society (Cataloguing in progress)
  - 47 - Fr Francis Devas SJ (1877-1951)
    - 6 - Chaplain

Repository	Jesuits in Britain Archives
Ref No	ABSI/SJ/47/6/3
Title	Commendations and correspondence
Date	1916-1951
Level	File
Description	File includes: - a handwritten poem about the 29th Division landing at Gallipoli, 25 April 1915 and the battle of Sedd-El-Bahr of 34 stanzas by Lance Corporal McIlwrath; - an extract from Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches; - correspondence with the British Legion (1933-1934); - circulars from the Twenty-Nine Division Association; - order of service for the Parade of Homage, 14 May 1939; - handwritten extract from the Cistercia Missal, 'Pro Rege et exercitus ejus'; - correspondence from Major E C Evans of The Five Disbanded Irish Regiments Association; - a letter from the War Office, 1 November 1929; - remarks on Fr Devas' service with the VIII Corps; - newspaper cutting; - 15-stanza poem on the Battle of the Somme; - list of places he was in for each month, 1915-1918; - Chaplain to the Territorial Army Second Class award, 28 July 1923; - documents regarding Fr Devas' appointment to the Order of the British Empire; - memo with instructions for Church of England and chaplains of other denoinations, 27 June 1916; - certificates of mentions in despatches; - recommendation for the Military Cross; - letters from the Editor of 'The Sprig of Shillelagh', the Journal of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1929; - letter from Beauvoir de Lisle, 11 May 1932; - and images of the new colours of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1932.
Format	Manuscript
Format	Typescript
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to archive material in the Jesuits in Britain Archives.
Language	English
Language	Latin

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