Item HAMILTON, ISM 2/6/2 - Telegrams received by staff of GOC 10 Division and staff of Hamilton's Force, South Africa, Jul 1900

Telegrams received by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, 10 Div South African Field Force [1-6 Jul only], and of Hamilton's Force, including from FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, ordering Hunter to retain Hamilton's staff and Hamilton to retain Hunter's staff, 6 Jul; details of men serving under Col Thomas Edgecomb Hickman recommended to serve in Capt Noel Nesbitt's Transvaal Constabulary ('Nesbitt's Horse'), 18 Jul; from Roberts, ordering Hamilton to send mounted troops to Eerste Fabriken, Transvaal, to counter patrols led by Boer Gen Johann N H Grobler and Boer Commandant H P J Pretorius attempting to cut lines of communication, 28 Jul. With details of composition of Hamilton's Force, their distribution and his ammunition column, 8-16 Jul. With daily indexes. 1 file