Key Information
Reference code
MAURICE, FB 2/2/44
Title
Letter from Arthur Bigge, private secretary to Queen Victoria, to Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, 1899, about army discipline
Date(s)
- 1899 Mar 7 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
8pp
Scope and content
Arthur Bigge to Wolseley. Lord Salisbury to be told that the C-in-C has practically no control over discipline of the Army. In India and Ireland the C-in-C is invested with this responsibility and it would inevitably come under British C-in-C directly war was declared. Encloses letters from Duke of Connaught [not here] about supplying Sirdar with British force when it is decided to operate against the Kalifta. No. 240 Manuscript, 8pp