1 photograph 1 letter, Arras, France Postcards || My father, Fred Tackaberry (no. 62034), was a Lewis gunner in th Royal Irish Fusiliers which was amalgamated into the 23rd Royal Fusiliers. He lived until the age of 95, and though he kept these items he was reluctant to talk about his experience. His diaries note the mud was the worst part (wet, blood, excrement, urine). I have included a photograph from 1916 taken in Templemore Barracks, when he was 18 years old. He is on horseback training. He thought there would be horse/cavalry fighting. A letter from a friend he met from another troop, sent from Arras, North France, is also included. This man is in a military hospital describing having had a leg amputation as though it was a tooth extraction. They remained friends for years. This man sent us books for Christmas each year. I have also included postcards from Fred to his sisters. Often said I am still going strong. || || Photograph || Photograph of Fred Tackaberry, Royal Irish Fusiliers, on horseback in Templemore Barracks || Templemore, Ireland

Scrapbook; Postcard to Tilly, 1914 from J. Dwyer Kelly. || Tilly Hill was from Tarbert, Co. Kerry, Ireland. The Hill family ran a shop/store in the town. She was an acquaintance of my grandfather. She entrusted this scrapbook to him in the 1930s or 1940s because she felt it would be in safe hands (he was the schoolmaster/Principal). I think that she never married. She corrected Mrs. to Miss in a Red Cross letter (she collected money for the Red Cross). Her name may have been Teresa. The scrapbook consists mainly of newspaper clippings relating to the war. I think she recorded anything she could get her hands on but there was a weighting in favour of anything with a North Kerry/Limerick connection. There are handwritten annotations, adding extra information and quotes. The scrapbook also includes letters, postcards, a comic strip. It tells us as much about the woman herself as it does about the items collected. There seem to be identifiable sections e.g. a few pages on Kitchener or Lord Roberts (with letters). On one page with a coloured Union Jack, she superimposed a row of shamrocks on the Union Jack. She was clearly an earnest supporter of the war effort as a nationalist. Sometimes she sowed things into the book and at other times pasted them. There are some items relating to 1916. There are some Second World War items at the end. There is also a postcard to Tilly, dated 1914, from J. Dwyer Kelly, thanking her for the parcel she sent (he was on active service in France). || || Postcard to Tilly Hill from J. Dwyer Kelly || Postcard || Postcard of Le Havre sent to Tilly Hill from J. Dwyer Kelly, thanking her for a parcel she sent to him while he was on active service in France. || Western Front || Tilly Hill || Front || || Postcard of Le Havre sent to Tilly Hill from J. Dwyer Kelly, thanking her for a parcel she sent to him while he was on active service in France. || Tilly Hill || Western Front || Postcard || Back || Postcard to Tilly Hill from J. Dwyer Kelly || || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Memoir || || Memoir || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. This page includes poem and postcards/drawings || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. This page includes newspaper clippings, photos from newspapers and handwritten notes. One clippnig is dated from August 18th, 1943 in the context of World War II. || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. Same pages as previous image, with WWII related column removed. || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Memoir || || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. This page includes newspaper clippings (mostly photos), including ones with th following headlines: The Empire's Farewell to Lord Roberts and The Voice of the Mighty Dead. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Memoir || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include newspaper clippings include columns with the following headlines: The Last Scenes at Englemere and Reported Sinking of H.M.S. Audacious. || Memoir || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include newspaper clippings with a headline: Lord French Reviews 10,000 London Volunteers, photos and a poem handwritten by a Joyce Pope(?). || Memoir || World War I || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include newspaper clippings including a newspaper photo of Nurse Edith Cavell and handwritten notes. || Memoir || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include a clipping of newspaper text and several photos, including a series under the headline: Canadian Receive Instruction in the Art of Sniping. || World War I || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include photos from newspaper, handwritten poetry and a clipping with the heading: Young Winnipegger gives Life in the Dardanelles. || World War I || || World War I || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include a newspaper column entitled: God Shaking the World: Address by Dr. Campbell Morgan and a drawing from a newspaper of the sinking of the Lusitania. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include a large newspaper photo and the headline: In Memory of Kitchener and How He Answered the Last Call\. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || World War I || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include columns regarding Lord Kitchener. || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Memoir || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include clippings and photos entitled Destruction of Rheims at Last Completed and The March of the British Nurses. || World War I || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || Memoir || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include 2 photos from newspapers entitled British Nurse Who was always the first over the top decorated with Serbian V.C. and another entitled Brave Irishwomen who fought in the Trencges with the Serbians. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include photos from newspapers including Heroines Sergeant Major Flora Sandes and Frances Hughes. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Memoir || || Memoir || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include photos and a handwritten page of notes entitled: Ancient(?) Prophesies. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include a continuation of notes from page 29 and newspaper photos, including ones entitled: Krupp gun as Palastine trophy and British in Jerusalem. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || World War I || Memoir || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include newspaper clippings such as one entitled: The Naval Blow at Zeebrugge and a colour card. || Memoir || World War I || || Memoir || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include newspaper photos and maps, including one Blocking the U-Boat exits into the North Sea - Maps and Pictures. || || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include a newspaper clipping, photos and a portrait of Grace Gifford (Joseph Plunkett's widow) entitled: Irish Rebel's Bride - and Widow. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Memoir || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || World War I || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages contain photos from newspapers. || || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include newspaper photos and a clipping of a list of deported prisoners and a coloured Union Jack flag with a row of shamrocks drawn across the middle. || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include newspaper columns and photos. One is entitled Seattle's youngest War worker is not quite two and another is The last absolution of the Munsters. || Memoir || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || World War I || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages includes newspaper photos, one with the headline Some more of Uncle Sam's - and other portraying the last absolution of the Munsters. These pages also include a card with a crucifix on the front with the handwritten note: From Dear Fred O'Donnell, 17 Feb 1919. || || Memoir || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. Same pages as previous image but with crucifix card turned. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include letters and a receipt from the British Red Cross Society and St. John Ambulance Association to Tilly concerning a donation she made, as well as newspaper clippings and photos. || World War I || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || World War I || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include newspaper columns, photos and handwritten notes. One column and photo is of Flora Sandes entitled: A letter from Miss Flora Sandes. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || World War I || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include newspaper clippings including a drawing from one entitled: Thrilling dash of an ambulance under shell-fire. || || Memoir || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include clippings from newspapers and photos. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include two clippings of photos from newspapers, including one entitled: Funeral of Officer victim of the Rebellion. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || World War I || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include newspaper clippings related to Arthur Griffin, and photos of desctruction in Dublin, Ireland as a result of the 1916 Easter Rising. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || World War I || Memoir || || World War I || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages contains clippings of photos from newspapers, including ones for James Connolly, P.H. Pearse and Countess Markievicz. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include clippings from newspapers, such as a photo of Michael Collins and Italian troops and a coloured Italian flag. || || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include handwritten notes and photos and clippings from newspapers. || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include handwritten notes and a newspaper photo of the Irish Mail boat Leinster. || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || Memoir || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include photographs from newspapers including one from London entitled: The end of the War. || || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include multiple photos from newspapers of Allied military and naval personnel under the headline: The men who defeated Germany - the great Allied leaders on sea and land. || || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include newspaper clippings including one titled: Cost of the war and a photo with the headline: German high seas fleet surrenders to the Allies. || World War I || || World War I || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages include photos and a cartoon from newspapers. || || World War I || Memoir || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. These pages have one cartoon from a newspaper. || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook || Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook. This page is blank, with only a photo from a newspaper stuck on the inside of the back cover. || Memoir || World War I

Medals and cap badges (framed) 2 letters from POW camp 1 letter from George V on release 3 photographs of Lt. Robert J. Kelly 1 certificate of elevation to rank of 2nd lieutenant || Lieutenant Robert J. Kelly served with the 6th Royal Irish Regiment before being captured in France and spending the rest of the war in POW camps. There are two letters from POW camps here (one newspaper and a blue envelope to be opened in case of death). One of the letters acknowledges his status as a POW. A certificate of his elevation to the rank of Second Lieutenant is shown, as are his medals and cap badges, which are framed. There are three photographs. One shows Robert seated, smoking a pipe. A second shows him sat beside a bed while a third shows him in Black Watch uniform. A letter from George V after his release is shown which includes the line: The Queen joins me in welcoming you on you release from the miseries and hardhips which you have endured with so much patience and courage. || || Photograph || Photographs of Lt. Robert J. Kelly, 6th Royal Irish Regiment