Letters By Author
Joseph Frederick Eagleson (1894 - n.d.)
Date of letters
31 October 1915 - 16 January 1919
Number of letters
23
Regiments
110th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps October 1915 - August 1918
No. 29 Stationary Hospital, Italian Expeditionary Force August 1918 - December 1918
No. 6 Native Labour Hospital, Italian Expeditionary Force December 1918 -
Rank
Private
Regimental number
46784
Joseph Frederick Eagleson was born on 4 May 1894 in Belfast to parents Helen McCarthy from Armagh and Joseph Eagleson, then a Sergeant in the RIC from Galway. Eagleson was appointed as Assistant Librarian to Donegall Road Branch on 2 November 1908. In the 1911 Census his family were residing at Greenville Road (off the Upper Beersbridge Road) and Joseph Eagleson Snr. was now a store keeper.
Eagleson joined the Royal Army Medical Corps (Ulster Division) as a Private on 18 November 1914.
Eagleson’s weekly allowance ceased in October 1915 after he failed to communicate with the Chief Librarian, which was his duty, while away at war. His pay was reinstated in November 1915. A large amount of his correspondence relates to activity in the library service and conditions in France and later Italy. In August 1917 he contracted blood poisoning in his arm along with enteric fever and was hospitalised for several weeks.
He resigned from the library service in November 1919 and married Lilian O’Neill on 24 August 1921 in Belfast. In a letter to the Ministry for Pensions on 1 November 1919 Goldsbrough, the Chief Librarian, writes of Eagleson “He is quite reliable and honest, and has proved generally satisfactory in his work."
Donegall Road Library. © National Museums Northern Ireland Collection Ulster Museum
For Author Joseph Frederick Eagleson we have found 23 correspondence(s).
Reference | Date of Letter | Type | Summary | View Letter |
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EAG-001 | 31 October 1915 | Letter | Eagleson to Elliott. France. Allowance stopped, French. | View |
EAG-002 | 05 November 1915 | Letter | Elliott to Eagleson. Allowance. | View |
EAG-003 | 15 February 1916 | Letter | Eagleson to Elliott. France. division, McCausland. | View |
EAG-004 | 17 April 1916 | Letter | Eagleson to Elliott. France. Wages | View |
EAG-005 | 18 January 1917 | Letter | Eagleson to Elliott. France. War effort, weather, Coulson. | View |
EAG-006 | 09 February 1917 | Letter | Goldsbrough to Eagleson. Elliott's death, weather. | View |
EAG-007 | 12 February 1917 | Letter | Eagleson to Goldsbrough. France. Weather, Elliott's death, Coulson, the French. | View |
EAG-008 | 28 March 1917 | Postcard | Field Service Postcard from Eagleson to Goldsbrough. I am quite well. | View |
EAG-009 | 25 April 1917 | Letter | Goldsbrough to Eagleson. Letters to the front, other staff at war, library matters. | View |
EAG-010 | 03 May 1917 | Postcard | Field service Postcard from Eagleson to Goldsbrough. I am quite well. | View |
EAG-011 | 04 May 1917 | Letter | Eagleson to Goldsbrough. France. Weather, other staff at war, library matters. | View |
EAG-012 | 26 June 1917 | Postcard | Field Service Postcard from Eagleson to Goldsbrough. I am quite well. | View |
EAG-013 | 10 July 1917 | Letter | Goldsbrough to Eagleson. Other staff at war, library matters. | View |
EAG-014 | 31 July 1917 | Postcard | Field Service Postcard Eagleson to Goldsbrough. I have been admitted into hospital. | View |
EAG-015 | 28 August 1917 | Letter | Eagleson to Goldsbrough. France. Sick with blood poisoning and enteric fever. | View |
EAG-016 | 18 October 1917 | Letter | Goldsbrough to Eagleson. Staff at war, library matters. | View |
EAG-017 | 24 December 1917 | Letter | Eagleson to Goldsbrough. France. Writing from an ex-German dug out. | View |
EAG-018 | 01 August 1918 | Letter | Eagleson to Goldsbrough. Italy. Working in a hospital, met man from Ealing Library | View |
EAG-019 | 23 August 1918 | Letter | Goldsbrough to Eagleson. Brown killed, O'Rourke POW. | View |
EAG-020 | 04 December 1918 | Letter | Eagleson to Goldsbrough. Italy. Hospital work, anxious to get back to the library, Brown and Scilley deaths. | View |
EAG-021 | 18 December 1918 | Letter | Goldsbrough to Eagleson. Staff at war, library matters, Christmas wishes. | View |
EAG-022 | 28 December 1918 | Letter | Eagleson to Goldsbrough. Italy. Demobilisation, flu, Christmas. | View |
EAG-023 | 16 January 1919 | Form | Application for the Release from the Colours | View |