Correspondence, certificate of elevation, photographs and medals of Lt. Robert J. Kelly, 6th Royal Irish Regiment , item 6

• March 12, 2018 16:34:13 Annick Rodriguez

  I also want you to send me a copy of the

  last examination papers for the Consular

  Service. This must be ordered through

  the publishers, Eyre and Spotiswoode/

  Ponsonby's of Grafton Street will do it

  for you.

   The new regulations regarding parcels

  come into force next march. They only

  refer to food, I believe , clothing , toilet

  articles ,tobacco, etc. can be sent freely.

  I leave the matter in your hands

  entirely. Certainly until I see how the

  scheme works. The central committe

  has already sent me some parcels

  including a large quantity of biscuits.

     Now, Mother, you really must not

  worry about me. I am in excellent

  health and my wounds have been

  completely healed some nine months

  or so, and I do not suffer at all as

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  a result of them. Being shot sounds

  much more dreadful than it is in

  actual fact. Indeed were one ill, there

  are two English doctors in the camp, who

  are prisoners of war like the rest of us,

  and who attend daily to the medical

  needs of the prisoners. In addition one

  can always visit or be visited by a 

  German specialist if he has any grounds

  for alarm.

    There was much excitement in the camp

  last week. Eighty officers who had been

  taken prisoner in 1914 or who were ill

  started  for Holland. It is believed that

  a good many more will go shortly.

  The scheme provides for those who have

  been over eighteen months in captivity.

    I hope that Lil is quite qell again and

  that her visits to the torture chamber

  are over. Thank her for her letter and

  encourage her to repeat the dose frequently

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