Images of two souvenir shells. Postcards (and pdf of postcard collection). || Adam Malcolm was my grandfather and he was born in 1890. During the First World War he served with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (he was a conductor, a type of warrant officer); he went to France in the spring of 1915 (March or April) and in 1917 was awarded the Military Cross. He was part of the Altopiano offensive in Italy in 1918 and won an Italian medal. I also have a collection of postcards, some of which are embroidered and many of which are of pictures and cartoons used for propaganda. || || Western Front || Images of two shells kept as souvenirs || Artillery

Map of a section of the Western Front in Bethune, France || || This image contains a studio style photograph of my father, also called William Powderly, who served as a driver during the full extent of the Great War from 1915 to 1918, and a photograph of him and a colleague pictured with the ambulance they drove. This image also shows my father's cap badge, which I still have and which he wore at all of the engagements in which he served including the Somme and Ypres. The cap badge in particular is very important to me as this actual item was present at many of the great battles of the war. || Picture of William Powderly with ambulance and also his cap badge || Medical || Transport || William Powderly || Photograph || || Islandbridge, Dublin || Photograph of veterans marching to a commemoration at Islandbridge || William Powderly, Remembrance ceremony at Islandbridge || Remembrance || This is a picture of World War 1 veterans, including my father William Powderly, marching to a Remembrance commemoration at Islandbridge in Dublin at a date sometime between the 1930s and the 1950s. I accompanied my father on many of these occasions and I played The Last Post on a bugle at many Remembrance ceremonies during this period. There was a great sense of fellowship among the comrades from the Great War but after Irish independence these veterans of the War were not popular in Ireland and the Remembrance ceremonies were not supported by either the public or the Irish government until recent years. || || Official document || My father's driving licence for the Royal Army Service Corps || Driving licence of my father, William Powderly, who served in the Royal Army Service Corps as a driver on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918. || William Powderly || || Leave sheet of William Powderly || Leave sheet of my father, William Powderly, granting him leave in 1917 from Rouen in France to spend time at home in Dublin, Ireland. || || Recruitment and Conscription || William Powderly's certificate on entering active service in 1915 || || Medal card for the service medal of my father, William Powderly, who served in the Royal Army Service Corps on the Western Front during the Great War. || Medal card of William Powderly - M21 073990 || || Remembrance || Group of veterans at Remembrance ceremony at Islandbridge in Dublin || Photograph of a group of veterans, including my father William Powderly, attending a Remembrance ceremony at Islandbridge in Dublin. I have fond memories of attending such events with my father over many years.

X medals of B. O'Farrell Royal Army Medical Crops records of John Grogan 4 photrographs of John Grogan || My grandfather, John Grogan, was born in Carlow on 4 July 1896. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914, at the age of 18. During the war he was a stretcher bearer, and one of his medal records mentions Egypt as a theatre of war. According to my father, on the way to Gallipoli he was injured and picked up in the water near Greece, from where he was brought to England. He sustained a leg injury and couldn't return to the fighting after this. However, he was in France until 1920 with the Graves Commission, as a gardener. One of the photographs provided was taken in 1916 when he was in France. He was wearing a black button on his uniforn as he was in mourning for his mother, whose funeral he was unable to attend. A second photograph shows him with two French soldiers, possibly taken after the war when he was working for the Graves Commission. A third photo show him with a mandolin, with a note on the back. There is a fourth photograph, date unknown, of him in a graveyard, probably in France post-war. I have included his R.A.M.C. records. John Grogan died in March 1946. I have also provided the medals of B. O'Farrell, a nephew to John Grogan, who died during the war and was buried in France, He as in the 8th Hussars (no. 11432). || || Medal || Medal of John Grogan's nephew, B O'Farrell || || Photograph of John Grogan, Royal Army Medical Corps || Photograph || Western Front