Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 2/5/19
Title
Copy telegrams sent by staff of GOC 10 Division, South Africa, 9-21 Jun 1900
Date(s)
- 1900 Jun 9 - 1900 Jun 21 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 notebook
Scope and content
Carbon copies of telegrams, nos 041-069, dispatched by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, Western Transvaal, including to Maj Gen Arthur Fitzroy Hart, commanding 5 Bde, informing him of defeats of forces under Boer Gen Louis Botha at Donkerspruit, Eastern Transvaal, and under Boer Gen Christiaan Rudolph De Wet at Heuningspruit, Orange River Colony, (049 no date); to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, reporting his destruction of surrendered rifles and impounding of horses at Ventersdorp, Lichtenburg and Klerksdorp, (052 no date). 1 notebook