Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1900 Aug 1 - 1900 Oct 14 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
File of telegrams received by staff of Hamilton's Force, including from Brig Gen Bryan Thomas Mahon, on his advance towards Boer laager at Zilikat's Nek, Transvaal, 1 Aug; from Military Secretary, HQ, reporting status of Boer artillery around Komati Poort, Eastern Transvaal, 21 Sep; from FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, reminding all commanding officers that armed Boer burghers taken prisoner were to be deported to St Helena or Ceylon, 24 Sep; from Roberts, recalling Hamilton and giving him command of columns under Maj Gen Ralph Arthur Penrhyn Clements, Col George Glencairn Cunningham and Brig Gen Robert George Broadwood, Western Transvaal, 30 Sep. With daily indexes (telegrams 11-25 Aug are missing). 1 file