Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 7/4/16
Title
Copy extracts from letters, Mar-Sep 1915, demonstrating Field Marshal Lord Kitchener's confidence in Hamilton as MEF commander
Date(s)
- 1915 Mar 31 - 1915 Sep 3 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
2pp
Scope and content
Typed extracts from four letters to Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), from Brevet Lt Col Oswald Arthur Gerald Fitzgerald, Personal Military Secretary to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, illustrating Kitchener's confidence in Hamilton's leadership of the MEF. 2pp