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Photograph album of Col. Fitz-Simon
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Photograph album of Col. Fitz-Simon

  • IE OCL P136
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1924

Photograph album created by Lt. Col. M. O'Carroll Fitz-Simon, M.C. , who began his military career in Prince of Wales' Leinster Regiment, which was headquartered at Birr. The photographs document a peace-keeping mission the Leinsters undertook in Silesia (now part of Poland) from their departure at Dover on 31 May 1921, through Germany and to their destination of Oppeln (Opole in Poland today). Following the disbandment of the regiment in June 1922, Fitz-Simon joined the King's Own Regiment, Lancaster and the remaining photographs in the album depict scenes from missions in India and Burma. There is also a small number of photographs of people and houses in the Birr area including Whigsborough House, and the burnt out remains of Birr Barracks (following its destruction in the Civil War in July 1922).

Fitz-Simon, Christopher Richard Manners Daniel O'Connell, Lt Col

OCL P136 Page 11

Silesia tour, Leinster Regiment

  1. [Untitled. Inter-allied garden-party, Gross Strehlitz/Strzelce Opolskie]
  2. 'Guttentag on a wet day, June 21'
  3. 'Eine Oberschlesicher'
  4. 'Awaiting arrival of General Gratier (121st B.C.A)'

OCL P136 Page 23

Silesia tour, Leinster Regiment

'Rosenberg, November 1921'

  1. [Untitled. Streetscape, Rosenberg/Olesno]
  2. '11th Nov. Parade 1921'
  3. 'Hotel Baginsky - B Coy. mess'
  4. [Untitled. Town Hall, Rosenberg/Olseno ]

OCL P136 Page 33

Silesia tour, Leinster Regiment

  1. [Untitled. View of Semmering Pass, Austria?]
  2. [Untitled. View of Semmering Pass, Austria?]
  3. 'Wedding Party Rosenberg'
  4. 'Wedding Party Rosenberg'

OCL P136 Page 35

Silesia tour, Leinster Regiment

'Rosenberg'

  1. [Untitled. Workers at timber/railway yard?]
  2. [Untitled. View of access to train line and train crossing?]
  3. [Untitled. View of thatched farmhouse and other small houses on road]
  4. [Untitled. View of farmyard and thatched farmhouse]

OCL P136 Page 40

Silesia tour, Leinster Regiment

  1. 'McCann'
  2. [Untitled. Train station at Oppeln/Opole in heavy snow.]
  3. [Untitled. Officers ice-skating at the outdoor ice-rink in Oppeln/Opole]
  4. [Untitled. Four officers, including Fitz-Simon [?] at the outdoor ice-rink in Oppeln/Opole]
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