Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 2/5/22
Title
Telegrams sent by Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Hunter, GOC 10 Division, South Africa, 21-26 Jun 1900
Date(s)
- 1900 Jun 21 - 1900 Jun 26 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 notebook
Scope and content
Carbon copies of telegrams, nos 070-080, dispatched by Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, Western Transvaal, including to Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner, reporting his deployment of Cape Police at Schweizer-Reneke and Vryburg to suppress cattle raiding, 21 Jun; to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, on the appointment of provisional civil governments in Ventersdorp, Lichtenburg and Klerksdorp, 21 Jun; to Maj Gen Hector Archibald McDonald, commanding 3Bde, on Hunter assuming command of Hamilton's force due to Hamilton's fractured collar bone, 26 Jun. 1 notebook