Item HAMILTON, ISM 7/1/24 - Semi-official correspondence of Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Pollen as MEF HQ Assistant Military Secretary, May-Oct 1915

File of semi-official correspondence of Lt Col Stephen Hungerford Pollen, Assistant Military Secretary, General Headquarters, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), with the War Office and other officers of the MEF, relating to appointments of officers and decorations for service with the MEF, including request from Maj Gen Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston to be appointed substantive Lieutenant General, 6 Jul; farewell letter from Hunter-Weston, following his being invalided due to sickness, 22 Jul; request from Lt Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood for new aide-de-camp following the death of Lt Brian Walton Onslow, 31 Jul; correspondence with Maj Gen William Eliot Peyton, General Officer Commanding 2 Mounted Div regarding confirmation of the death of Brig Gen Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, while commanding 2 (South Midland) Mounted Bde at Scimitar Hill, 21 Aug. 1 file