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Photocopy of a personal file in Spanish relating to Patrick Hickey, Legionnaire in Irish Brigade’s ‘C’ Company, including enlistment certificate for Spanish Foreign Legion, which records personal details such as age, hair and eye colour and distinctive facial features, and documents obligatory stays in hospital noting reasons, dates, and locations, also referring to leave and disciplinary problems, with section to be filled out by Captain relating to bravery, conduct, love for service and disposition. Also contains record of clothes brought to hospital during stays. Many sections are blank.

Photocopy of a passenger list from the S.S. Aguila, Yeoward Line, noting names and place of origin of passengers bound for Lisbon, Madeira, Las Palmas, Tenerife and tourist round cruise. Includes later annotations in ink.

Photocopy of a list of passengers for Royal Mail Steamer Alcantara, including names of passengers travelling to Lisbon, Cherbourg and Southampton.

Photocopy of a mortuary card in memory of Sergeant-Major Gabriel Lee, 45 Lower Drumcondra Road, Dublin, who was mortally wounded at Ciempozuelos on 13 March 1937, dying at Grinon Hospital. The card states, ‘A loyal Comrade a true Friend. He Died as he lived a soldier of Christ.’

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.

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 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.