A small collection relating to the Easter Rebellion 1916 and the Anglo-Irish War 1919-22

Army Book 152, Correspondence Book (Field Service), belonging to Major Thomas A. Salt, inside cover facing page inscribed in pencil, ‘1st May 1916, Thomas A. Salt, Major, Staff Officer to B.P.P.*’, containing 39 pages bearing copied orders and communications bearing the signature of Major Salt; the orders, dated between 1-22 May 1916 and written at Dublin Castle, Curragh Camp, Castlebar and Clonmel, concern the assembly and movement of troops and the holding and movement of prisoners, other pages unused, original brown hardback cover, good condition £200-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A small collection relating to the Easter Rebellion 1916 and the Anglo-Irish War 1919-22.

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*B.P.P.= Colonel (Temporary Brigadier-General) Bertram Percy Portal, D.S.O. Portal was created a C.B. for his services in connection with the Irish Rebellion. Later advanced to a K.C.B.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Anderdon Salt, late 11th Hussars, 2nd Baronet of Standon and Weeping Cross, was awarded the D.S.O. (London Gazette 24 January 1917) for his services in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion. With some copied biographical and service details for the above.