Letters from Thomas Noonan to home from the front
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Side of page note P.S
One night while
having a nap in the trench
I dreamt I was having tea with
you at home. But suddenly woke
up to find sand splashed all over
me with some shrapnel. Signature
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Kasr- el- Ainy Hospital
Cairo
May 4th 1915
Dear Mother & Father,
Just a short letter
Trusting you both are in good health, also
my brothers and sisters. How is Bill N
say I was asking for him also all the friends
at home. I am in hospital at present
as I got a bullet wound in the ankle.
I am feeling in the best of form , and expect
to be back in the firing line very soon.
I was wounded on the morning of April 28
the bullet went through at one side of my
ankle and out at the other side and neither
broke a bone or tendon. I reckon I was
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Side of page note P.S
One night while
having a nap in the trench
I dreamt I was having tea with
you at home. But suddenly woke
up to find sand splashed all over
me with some shrapnel. Signature
Letter Header
Kasr- el- ling Hospital
Cairo
May 4th 1915
Dear Mother & Father
Just a short letter
Trusting you both are in good health, also
my brothers and sisters. How is Bill H
day I was asking for him also all therefore
at home. I am in hospital at present
as I got a bullet wound in the ankle.
I am feeling in the best of form , and expect
to be back in the firing line very soon.
I was wounded on the morning of April 28
the bullet went through at the side of my
ankle and out the other side and neither
broke a bone or tendon. I reckon I was
-
Side of page note P.S
One night while
having a nap in the trench
I dreamt I was having tea with you at home. But suddenly woke
up to find sand splashed all over
me with some shrapnel. Signature
Letter Header
Kasr- el- ling Hospital
Cairo
May 4th 1915
Dear Mother & Father
Just a short letter
Trusting you both are in good health, also
my brothers and sisters. How is Bill H
day I was asking for him also all therefore
at home. I am in hospital at present
as I got a bullet wound in the ankle.
I am feeling in the best of form , and expect
to be back in the firing line very soon.
I was wounded on the morning of April 28
the bullet went through at the side of my
ankle and out the other side and neither
broke a bone or tendon. I reckon I was
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Gallipoli
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Story location Gallipoli
- ID
- 4436 / 51885
- Contributor
- Michael Noonan, Ballybuy, Murroe, Co. Limerick
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