Key Information
Reference code
KIGGELL 2/3
Title
Letter from Lieutenant General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson to Kiggell, May 1917, with comment on recent French promotions, and on talks in Ireland
Date(s)
- 1917 May 19 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
4pp
Scope and content
Letter from Lt Gen Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, Chief Liaison Officer to French General Headquarters, enclosing a copy of a note to Gen Sir William (Robert) Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, giving Wilson's opinions on the promotion of French Gen Henri-Philippe Benoni Omer Pétain to Commander in Chief of the French army, with French Gen Ferdinand Foch as his Chief of Staff; comment on a Convention being held in Dublin between the opposing sides in Ireland. 4pp.