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Biography

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

Author Letters

For Author Joseph Frederick Eagleson we have found 23 correspondence(s).

Reference	Date of Letter	Type	Summary	View Letter
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