Item HAMILTON, ISM 2/5/1 - Correspondence of Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Hunter as GOC 10 Division, South Africa, Feb-May 1900

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HAMILTON, ISM 2/5/1

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Correspondence of Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Hunter as GOC 10 Division, South Africa, Feb-May 1900

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  • 1900 Feb 14 - 1900 May 16 (Creation)

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1 file

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Correspondence of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter as General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, (mainly manuscript office copies of telegrams, returns, and memoranda with some original incoming telegrams) mostly relating to correspondence with 5 Bde and 6 Bde, including names of officers commanding units in 5 Bde, 16 March; papers relating to Courts of Inquiry on losses of arms and equipment in action; papers relating to Field General Courts Martial of Driver George Chapman, 27 Company, Army Service Corps, 15 Mar, and Gunner Alfred Haram Diggines, 28 Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 28 Mar; details of troops and horses embarking at Cape Town for Natal; report of Maj Edmond Townsend, Principal Medical Officer, 10 Div, on health of men, prevalence of disease and admissions to hospitals, 2 Apr; plans of graves and register of burials at 5 Bde and 6 Bde Field Hospitals, Thornhill Camp, Ladysmith, 5 Mar-7 Apr; returns of casualties incurred at Rooidam, Transvaal, 5 May; list of men in 1 Bn Border Regt, 9 May; reports on movement of 10 Div on Christiana, Transvaal, 14-16 May. 1 file

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