Transcription: Leuven 21 Juli 1918 Zeer eerwaarde Heer, Ik laat U weten dat den boek welke Gij aan Prof. Lecoutere geleend had, hem terug gegeven is.  Ik meende van hem eens zelf te lezen maar hij scheen mij zoo . . . . droog, dat ik er seffens van voldaan was.  Wat leesdet Gij serieuse boeken! . . . Er is hier al veel verandering.  Zooals Ge weet waarschijnlijk is Mr de Deken gestorven.  Zijn opvolger is Mgr. Van Cauwenbergh oude vice rector.  De installatie heeft plaats gehad verleden maandag (met gesloten deuren)  De pastoors van de stad alleen waren gevraagd. Met groot spijt heb ik uwe Matante zien vertrekken.  Zij heeft ons onder  andere een souvenir achter gelaten: Uwe schoonste bloempot (die corbeille) prijkt hier te midden in den hof Zal men nu nog voor de H. KIndscheid zorgen in Herent?  Ik moet mij daar toch niet mede moeien niet waar?  Of wilt Gij dat ik eens tot bij den pastoor ga?

Transcription: Beste groeten van René, John en Chareltje Gheel, den 2 Aug. 1918. Liefste Broeder. Vandaag 2 Aug. H. Alphonse.  Mijn liefste Broeder, spijtig dat ik U mijne gelukwenschen in het gevang moet sturen, doch ik troost mij, vandaag voor Uw feestdag heb ik eene goede communie opgedragen omdaat U goed gezond moget blijven en er spoedig een einde aan uw gevangenschap mogen komen. Ene flesch hebben wij er ook niet op gedronken, wij zullen die wel goedhouden tot U komt.  Vandaag komt onzen Rik ook in vacantie, wat zal de jongen content zijn. Onze Juffrouw is ook van verleden Maandag vertrokken over Zwitserland terug naar Frankrijk.  Ze zijn allen moeten vertrekken. Ik heb er toch zoo n' spijt van, het was zulk een goed menschken, en ze vertrok niet gaarne, maar er was niets aan te doen. Deze week heb ik zelf weer eene   ...iens moeten spelen.  Ik heb weer eene kaart naar ons Moeder geschreven.  Het mensch was er zoo tevreden mede.  Liefste Broeder houd U goed Allen zijn nog in de beste gezondheid.  Binnen eenige dagen schrijf ik weer.   Uwe zuster Anna

Transcription: He asked me if I had read "Finnigan's Wake". I said I had read of it when it was being published   ^ in "translation."   He said it was even worse than the "Ulysses" and had taken seventeen years to write it. I said: Is it a big book? I have not seen it yet, and he replied : that reminds me of the story of the drunken Irishman walking from and when questioned as to the length of the road, said it was not the length that worried him, it was the width! - He told me he has also published a book with a title something like "Thirteen poems for a penny" (reminiscent of D Kelleher's commercial display on the Strand) . - He then began to rake up mutual acquaintances. He had shaken the dust of Dublin off his feet some years before I arrived there. I  told him I was an Autrim  man who spent his early life in Belfast. - You need not tell me, he replied (my accent always sharpens again when I am with Irish). His father came from Cork, he said; his wife from Galway and he from Dublin, so we were a representative group. He spoke of Oliver   Logasty   about whom he inquired and about his hotel in the West. I had never met John Eglinton and yet it is only he kept coming back to Herbert Hughes, the northern musician who spent much time in London; I had met him notlong before his death and liked him very much but told him of my wife's long acqaintanceship with him. Hughes he said had published a peculiar book of at least a dozen of his poems having them set to music by twelve composers all of different nationali- ties. A nice little international tribute to Joyce. I mentioned Desmond Fitzgerald's name with a very faint response. Dick Hayes, he knew only by name. As to   Lemlox Robinson   he inquired whther he was a parti- cular friend of mine. I said I knew him fairly well and then he reffered to a series of dramatic compe- titions given onver the Dublin wireless; they ended after a couple of weeks, or rather the adjudications by Robinson he said that there was not the slight- est doubt the man was completely tight; he had two   adjectives   which he employed without any other qualification for each of the competitors.

Transcription: 1st January 1941.         Dull as ditchwater this morning, fed up and depressed. Partly because I stayed out till nearly 1 this morning and drank a glass of champagne at midnight, including a toast to "absent ones". Also got a letter from Arthur S last night and one from Alec L today both on Arthur's position and not coinciding with what had been done. And I have much sympathy with them and am not at all sure that I have acted for the best. I don't want to clame anyone but I was and allowed myself to be very much influenced by Jacklin and though he may have been right about the money end I perhaps should have insisted more on my own instinctive judgement. However- we'll see.         Also all my New Year greetings have included the hope that we shall soon be reunited and I keep avoiding thinking too much on that myself- it gets too much under the skin. So here I am this bright New Year's Day passing off all my depression on you.             And I am not going ot the office and don't know what to do with my leave.         After looking at this have decided that it can't go to Ireland. I am down in the mouth. I am living from week to week and month to month and the future is dark and unknoown. I can't see how it could come about that I'll see my dear ones for a year. I must hold on here. I dare not desert. I hope I shall not. I suppose I have not real courage nor real "guts".         Have also begun again this last weeks to worry about the financial future. Over 52 and no sign of peace and modest easy. Even modest earning uncertain. Children not yet educated and Elsie unprovided for. I had ceased to worry when the war did come and there seemed little that could be done to provide for an unsure future. It's all very blue.         I suppose it mainly comes from physical nervous and mental tiredness and the loneliness.         This has been accompanied by a sermon from St Pierrre on the TSF in which the Genevese pastor had a marvellous text in the futility of human provision against the ills of life- the states that had a year ago believed themselves strong and well protected, or virtours in their isolation, with food and force and wealth and armies; and they are no more. And the men who insure against all troubles and who in their complacency believe themselves sheltered. And who can say it today?         Nowthat I have got this off I can settle and write someting more balanced for my letter home.         We certainly find it hard to realise how well off we are.

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Description: Auguste LE RONCÉ, grand-oncle de Michèle BOUCHERON, est tombé au champ d'honneur le 29 mai 1918. || Carte postale représentant L'enfant Jésus de Prague annonçant le décès d'Auguste LE RONCÉ à sa soeur. Attestation d'attribution de la médaille militaire. Citation à l'ordre de la Ve Armée. Courrier de Mathurin LE GALL, alors au combat, adressé à sa fiancée Tréphine LE RONCÉ (grands-parents de la contributrice) déplorant la mort d'Auguste LE RONCÉ et décrivant les combats.

Description: This is a discharge certificate from the war office originally given to Bill in 1919 and now reprinted and sent to his Galway address in 1930. It provides information about when he joined, what he did and a character reference.

Description: 1) 3 μετάλλια 2) 4 διπλώματα 3) 2 πιστοποιητικά στρατιωτικής υπηρεσίας 4) 2 Active Service Pay Book 5) 2 Returned soldier's handbook & an information on pensions 6) 1 Special order of the Day by Major-General A.C. MacDonell (ημερήσια διαταγή) 7) 2 forms of will 8) ένα αποδεικτικό επιστροφής των διαθηκών || Ο Δημήτριος Αστεριάδης ή James Asteriades, παππούς του Γεώργιου Κωνσταντινίδη, γεννήθηκε στο Ασβεστοχώρι το 1891 και πέθανε στην Αθήνα το 1953, -54. Ζούσε ως μετανάστης στον Καναδά και κατετάγη στον καναδικό στρατό το 1917, για να υπηρετήσει στον Α' Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο. Μετά την αποστράτευσή του, ο καναδικός στρατός του απένειμε μετάλλια και διπλώματα για τις υπηρεσίες του στον πόλεμο και το στρατό. || || Ελληνικά || 3 μετάλλια από τον καναδικό στρατό || Medal || Καναδάς || James Asteriades || || Official document || James Asteriades || Καναδάς || Ένα δίπλωμα για τις υπηρεσίες του στον καναδικό στρατό. || English || || Καναδάς || 45.4215296,-75.69719309999999 || James Asteriades || Ένα δίπλωμα για τις υπηρεσίες του στον καναδικό στρατό || English || Official document || || 45.4215296,-75.69719309999999 || English || Ένα δίπλωμα για ις υπηρεσίες στον καναδικό στρατό. || Καναδάς || James Asteriades || Official document || || James Asteriades || Official document || 43.653226,-79.38318429999998 || Τορόντο || English || Ένα δίπλωμα για τις υπηρεσίες στον καναδικό στρατό. || || Official document || English || 45.4215296,-75.69719309999999 || James Asteriades || Οτάβα || Ένα πιστοποιητικό για τις υπηρεσίες στον καναδικό στρατό. || || Ένα πιστοποιητικό στρατιωτικής υπηρεσίας. || Official document || Οτάβα || English || 45.4215296,-75.69719309999999 || James Asteriades || || James Asteriades || Official document || Active Service Pay Book || 45.4215296,-75.69719309999999 || English || Οτάβα || || English || Official document || Active Service Pay Book || Οτάβα || 45.4215296,-75.69719309999999 || James Asteriades || || Οτάβα || English || Official document || Στρατιώτες του καναδικού στρατού || 45.4215296,-75.69719309999999 || Δύο Returned Soldier's Handbook & Information on pensions. || || 1 φύλλο (ημερήσια διαταγή), Special Order of the Day by Major - General A.C. MacDonell. || English || Official document || || English || James Asteriades || Official document || A Form of Will Οι στρατιώτες ήταν υποχρεωμένοι να συντάξουν διαθήκες πριν από κάθε μάχη. || || Οτάβα || 45.4215296,-75.69719309999999 || James Asteriades || Official document || Ένα αποδεικτικό επιστροφής διαθηκών. || English

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