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. |