Description
Photocopy of a personal file in Spanish relating to Patrick Hickey, Legionnaire in Irish Brigade’s ‘C’ Company, including enlistment certificate for Spanish Foreign Legion, which records personal details such as age, hair and eye colour and distinctive facial features, and documents obligatory stays in hospital noting reasons, dates, and locations, also referring to leave and disciplinary problems, with section to be filled out by Captain relating to bravery, conduct, love for service and disposition. Also contains record of clothes brought to hospital during stays. Many sections are blank. Two pages outsize. Translations of Spanish material were made by Dr Barrie Wharton of the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick.
