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  <dc:title>Commendations and correspondence</dc:title>
  <dc: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.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1916-1951</dc:date>
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