Letters to Irish Fr Provincial John MacMahon SJ from Fr Alan Birmingham SJ written during his time as a chaplain attached to:

• the 2nd Battalion, The Loyal Regiment in Sussex and Northern Ireland;
• 32 Casualty Clearing Station in England and France;
• 4 Army Group Royal Artillery, British Liberation Army in France and Germany;
• 150th Infantry Brigade in Southern India and the Indian Artillery Centre, Kamaredi. Includes description of his role in the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 (16 November 1944, 4pp) and his last letter written on his way home (29 September 1946, 2pp).