Patrick Dorgan was in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion (no. 8764). He was born in 1890 and was from Claren? (Clarence?) Street, Cork, Ireland. He enlisted on 6 July, 1908. He was a POW from 1915, in Limburg POW camp. He was discharged on 1 April, 1919. He received the medal trio. || Certificate of Education (degree); Certificate of Transfer to Reserves; Treatment of Enemy POW; Statement of Extraordinary experience in German Internment Camp; Photograph of Limburg Internment Camp - memorial - cross; Royal Munster Fusiliers Old Comrade Association dinner menu, 1929, with signatures (back and front); Photograph of Patrick Dorgan in uniform; Photograph of Patrick Dorgan group - POW; Photograph of Patrick Dorgan group - post-war (Patrick is back left). || || Patrick Dorgan || Statement of extraordinary circumstances in German Internment Camps of Patrick Dorgan || Statement of extraordinary circumstances in German Internment Camps || Official document || || Official document || Patrick Dorgan || Statement of extraordinary circumstances in German Internment Camps || Statement of extraordinary circumstances in German Internment Camps of Patrick Dorgan (2nd scan) || || Certificate of transfer to reserves || Patrick Dorgan || Official document || Certificate of transfer to reserves of Patrick Dorgan || || Patrick Dorgan || Certificate of Education of Patrick Dorgan || Official document || || Prisoners of War || Remembrance || Limburg Camp || Photo of cross erected by Irish Prisoners of War commemorating comrades who died at Limburg Prison Camp, Germany. || Photograph || Photo of cross erected by Irish Prisoners of War commemorating comrades who died at Limburg Prison Camp, Germany || || Royal Munster Fusilier's Old Comrades' Association || The Royal Munster Fusiliers' Old Comrades' Association Dinner Menu || The Royal Munster Fusiliers' Old Comrades' Association Dinner Menu. Folded open to show front and back, with signatures written on the back. || Remembrance || Memorabilia || || The Royal Munster Fusiliers' Old Comrades' Association Dinner Menu. Folded open to show inside pages, with menu on left and toasts on right. || Remembrance || The Royal Munster Fusiliers' Old Comrades' Association Dinner Menu || Memorabilia || Royal Munster Fusiliers - Old Comrades' Association || || Patrick Dorgan || Photo of Patrick Dorgan in group of soldiers || Photograph || || Photo of Patrick Dorgan || Photo of Patrick Dorgan in uniform || Patrick Dorgan || Photograph

Certificate of Identity Army documenation Photographs? || My father Lance Corporal Christopher Scriven (no. 22242). I remember growing up in Cobh (Queenstown), Co. Cork. I recall a beautiful, wondferful framed picture which hung in our hall, at 16, St. Colemans Square. Its beautiful silken emboidery threads shone in the sunlight and night light. I watched my mother polish it unitl it shone with pride. In my early teens I learnt to embroider at school and so one day I asked my Mum whose fingers had made this work of art. She took me into our sitting-room and told me the following story - My Dad had joined the Irish Dublin Fusiliers in June 1915. he was in the Somme enduring horrific conditions in the trenches and became very ill in 1918. His body swelled up and he was isolated in a tent as his condition wasn't daignosed until a ship arrived in France to take him back to England to be treated. He spent a long time recovering from a renal condition in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, and so in convalesence he learned to embroider and worked as a hospital orderly until 1922, due to government changes. When he returned he was employed as a barber (his father's trade) in the three Harbour Ports. When they were passed back to the Éire goverment in 1938 he got a reference letter signed by the Garrison Adjutant R.C. Cobbold. He was entitled to a pension from the British Legion who had an agent here in Cobh, but my beloved Dad would not accept it in sympathy for all the colleagues he lost in the Battle of the Somme. We had a school in Cobh commonly called he Pension School - private education by the Sisters of Mercy called St. Marys. The Sterling pension was collected every month by Cobh residents but though it would have been a great asset when the 5 of his children, Dad couldn't take it. Deep down he never recovered from the loss of his friends whom he had served with in the Dublin Fusiliers for 3 and a half years, and never spoke of it. Dad worked in his final years with the Naval Base, Haulbowline as a runner/clerk and died in February 1972 from a massive myocardial infection all originating from his kidneys/blood pressure which he suffered all his life from the trenches. He dided unrecognised because he never spoke of the War and to this day I feel he never will, except by his family. No one in Cobh knew but his friends. (Pat O;Keeffe, August 1985). Included here are Certificate of Identity and army documentation of Christopher Scriven. 18th June Dublin enlisting 22nd August 1918 Royal Victorian Hispital || || Official document || Character certificate of Christopher Scriven, Royal Dublin Fusiliers

5 medals 1 regiment photograph taken in Bulgaria. 1 kit bag. 1 platoon roll book 1 manual 2 telegrams to his mother postcards 1 roll book 1 field message book 1 tag for wounded man's kit 1 set of discharge papers. || Included are items belonging to Sgt. Bernard Martin, MM, Royal Irish Fusiliers, 5th Battalion, including: MC medal from 1917 for Gallipoli, Bulgaria and Palestine. He lost his sight in Palestine. 4 medals A regiment photograph taken in Bulgaria. A kit bag. A platoon roll book A manual (for grenade training?) 2 telegrams to his mother to say that he was ill (?) and out of danger. Hosptial Alexander. Postcards including 1 postcard photog of himself, 1 surgical ? Royal Victoria hospital Netley Roll book Field message book (notes complete) Tag for wounded man's kit Discharge papers.