Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 2/3/15
Title
Copy letter from Hamilton to Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1 Feb 1902, on topics including military control of railways in South Africa
Date(s)
- 1902 Feb 1 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
14pp
Scope and content
Typescript copy of letter to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, Commander in Chief of the British Army from Hamilton, Chief of Staff to Lt Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Commander in Chief South Africa, including Kitchener's reluctance to relinquish military control of the railways; the inadequacies of the instruction provided by the Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, and Hamilton's proposals for a new curriculum; Hamilton's opinion of (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling's attitude towards the amnesty granted to Cape rebels. 14pp