Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 2/3/20
Title
Copy letter from Hamilton to Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 23 Mar 1902, on topics including the need for honourable peace terms
Date(s)
- 1902 Mar 23 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
5pp
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 his suspicion that highland regiments would lose the kilt as fighting dress and his urging that Boer leaders be given honourable peace terms to avert further conflict. 5pp