Item HAMILTON, ISM 2/5/15 - Telegrams received by staff of GOC 10 Division, South Africa, Jun 1900

File of telegrams received by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including from Maj Gen Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, reporting surrender of Polfontein and Ottoshoop, Western Transvaal, advance of Lt Col Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer to Zeerust, and opening of supply routes to Mafeking, 1 Jun; from Maj Gen Geoffry Barton, commanding 6 Bde, on the looting of Boer farms by native Africans and on the shooting of looters by British troops, 2 Jun; from Brig Gen Bryan Thomas Mahon and Intelligence, 10 Div, on Mahon's capture of Potchefstroom, Western Transvaal, and estimated location of Boer Gen Christiaan Rudolph De Wet, 10 Jun; from FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, on his engagement with forces under Boer Gen Louis Botha east of Pretoria (battle of Diamond Hill), the destruction of the railway near Rhenoster Bridge and capture of British artillery battery by forces under De Wet, 13 Jun. With daily indexes. 1 file