Key Information
Reference code
KIGGELL 1/53-54
Title
Letter from Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig to Kiggell, Jan 1918, about promotions, and complaints of a lack of recognition for the work of Indian cavalry
Date(s)
- 1918 Jan 1 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
4pp
Scope and content
Letter from FM Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, notably the promotion of Maj Gen Richard Harte Keatinge Butler, Deputy Chief of General Staff, to command a Corps, his failure to have Kiggell promoted to Gen; forwarding a letter from John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India, complaining about the lack of recognition given to the part played by the Indian Cavalry in recent operations near Cambrai. 4pp.