Item HAMILTON, ISM 2/6/3 - Copy telegrams sent by staff of Hamilton's Force, South Africa, Jul 1900

Carbon copies of telegrams, nos 824-874, dispatched by staff of Hamilton's Force, including to Director of Military Intelligence and Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, reporting estimates and disposition of Boer forces around Hamanskraal, Eastern Transvaal, 17 Jul; to Kitchener, seeking permission to order the support of forces commanded by Brig Gen Bryan Thomas Mahon in an attack on Boekenhoutskloof, Eastern Transvaal, 18 Jul; to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, reporting Boer horse commandos at Boekenhoutskloof and wagon laager at Dewagendrift and expressing concern at quality of officers in the force of Col Thomas Edgecomb Hickman, 19 Jul. 1 notebook