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Photocopy of a list of volunteers from the Kerry section of the Irish Brigade, under the command of General Eamon A. Horan, noting names and places of origin, which in the majority of cases is Tralee, with some from Ballyheigue. Also lists status, recording in the case of Tom Hayes, ‘machine gun co’, and those killed in action.

Photocopy of a memorandum from General Juan Yagüe, Chief-General of Spanish Legion, Chief of La Division Reforzada de Madrid, Navalcarnero, reporting on General Eoin O’Duffy’s Irish Brigade and notes their poor discipline, tendency for excessive drinking and their military inefficiency, recommending the Brigade’s dissolution and the incorporation of its integrants in other sections of the Legion or their repatriation.

Photocopy of memorandum from nationalist headquarters in Salamanca reporting on the activities of the Irish Independent journalist, Gertrude Gaffney, in Spain, her concerns about the failure of post from Ireland to reach Irish Brigadiers, and the economic state of their families in Ireland without government support.

Photocopy of a military dispatch from Juan Yagüe, Chief-General of Spanish Legion, reporting on application of a member of the dissolved Irish Brigade to remain in Spain where he was assigned to the Fifth Brigade of the Legion, and his public declaration of being a mason. Permission is requested for him to be forcefully repatriated.

Photocopy of a handwritten military dispatch which notes the first arrivals of the Irish Brigade in Lisbon, stating that between 700 and 2000 more would be arriving in five or six days’ time.