Key Information
Reference code
LIDDELL HART 15/1/29
Title
Copy telegrams and reports, 1900-1902, relating to the Second Boer War, South Africa
Date(s)
- 1937 (Creation)
- 1900 - 1902 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
2 vols, 1 file
Scope and content
Two volumes of manuscript copies of cipher telegrams and situation reports relating to the Second Boer War, between PROEMIAL (codename for Rt Hon William St John Freemantle Brodrick, Secretary of State for War) and Gen Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, 1900-1902, and including copies of telegrams to Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner and Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar. With typescript copies of above telegrams and explanatory letter to Detmar Blow. 2 vols, 1 file