Item 1 - Pocket diary

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Pocket diary

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  • 1915 (Creation)

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72 pp.

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(1891-1915)

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Thomas Noonan was born on 23 December 1891 and lived with his parents Michael and Catherine Noonan together with his four older sisters and two younger brothers at Ballyguy, Barrington’s Bridge, Limerick. Thomas was educated at Murroe National School and later spent three years as an apprentice at McBirney’s Drapery Emporium in Limerick city. He was engaged in clerical work until May 1914, when the prospect of better opportunities, together with the added spur of relatives already there, encouraged his emigration to Sydney, Australia. In September 1914, he enlisted as a private in the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force. Attached to the 13th Battalion, he spent periods of training in Australia and Egypt. In April 1915, Noonan was wounded in the landings at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula and was transferred to a military hospital in Cairo for treatment. In July, he was returned to front line duty in Gallipoli, where he was killed in action on 9 August 1915. He is buried at the 7th Field Ambulance Cemetery in Gallipoli.

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Pocket diary (50 x 75 mm) containing intermittent entries made in Australia and Gallipoli between 1 January and 6 August 1915. The last few pages contain entries on pay and directions for the use of Stymol tablets.

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      A bound volume in fragile condition.

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      Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.t5zv-6w05.

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