Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1900 Mar 8 - 1900 May 14 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file, 1 notebook
Scope and content
Telegrams received by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including from Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, ordering 6 Bde to escort four naval guns to Elandslaagte, Natal, 11 Mar; from Intelligence HQ, Capetown, with daily news bulletin, 13 Mar, reporting peace proposals made by Boer leaders and defeat of Boer forces by FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa at the battle of Driefontein (10 Mar); from Principal Medical Officer, Natal Army, proposing to send a field hospital to Hydes Farm, Ladysmith to relieve 5 Bde field hospital, 31 Mar; from Kitchener, informing that 4 Div were to assume the scouting duties of 10 Div at Modderspruit camp, 2 Apr. With separate notebook index to telegrams. 1 file, 1 notebook