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- 5 May 1916 (Creation)
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Letter from Major Gerald Henry Pomeroy Colley, Headquarters, Irish Command, Parkgate, Dublin, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., declaring that he is ‘glad to say your kind offices will not be required to night’. Colley was referring to Fr. Aloysius’ attendance to imprisoned rebel leaders.
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Gerald Henry Pomeroy Colley was born on 31 Mar. 1870. He was the son of Henry FitzGeorge Pomeroy Colley and Elizabeth Isabella Wingfield. Colley married Dorothy Evelyn Addie, a daughter of Colonel James Addie, on 20 June 1906. He was RM for County Tipperary, and a Major in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. He was awarded the Queen’s medal with five clasps and King’s medal with two clasps for services during the Boer War. He died on 12 Nov. 1923 at the age of 53.