Item ROBERTSON, WR 4/3/5 - Letter from Field Marshal Sir John French to Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, 15 Aug 1914, on French's meetings on his arrival in France, 14 Aug

Private letter to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, from FM Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, Commander in Chief, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), describing his movements following his arrival in France on 14 Aug, including details of the condition of 5 and 8 Infantry Bdes; the transport and train arrangements; a meeting with Maj Gen Sir Frederick Spencer Robb, Inspector General of Communications, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), and the Line of Communications Staff in Amiens; an inspection of the Royal Flying Corps; a meeting in Paris with Raymond Poincaré, French President, René Vivani, French Prime Minister, Théophile Delcassé, French Foreign Minister and Alexandre Millerand, French War Minister which supported the decision to concentrate the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) in the previously agreed upon area (Maubeuge); and arrangements to meet with French Gen Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, Commander in Chief of the French Army. 8pp.