Item HAMILTON, ISM 2/5/9 - Correspondence of Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Hunter as GOC 10 Division, South Africa, Apr-Jun 1900

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), including copy of letter from J Joubert, Mayor of Christiana, Transvaal, offering the surrender of the town, with Hunter's reply, 16-17 May; list of appointments of officers to staff of 10 Div, 22 May; bulletin from Director of Military Intelligence warning of perceived threat by Boer forces poisoning water supplies and mining roads, 4 May; report of Maj Gen Geoffry Barton, on advance of his 6 Bde from Christiana to Schlaapfontein, 18 May; daily return of sick troops of 10 Div, 25 May; inventory and plan of magazine at Heidelburg, Transvaal, 30 Jun; field state returns for 10 Div, showing numbers of men fit for duty or sick, animals, vehicles and artillery, 25 Apr-29 Jun. 1 file