Item ROBERTSON, WR 7/6/65 - Letter from General Sir Douglas Haig to Robertson, 9 Aug 1916, on subjects including senior command appointments

Letter to Robertson from Gen Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, on the success of Robertson's efforts to present the military viewpoint to the War Committee; criticism of the direction of the war by the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill; the suggestion of temporary Lt Gen Sir Richard Cyril Byrne Haking, as a temporary replacement for temporary Gen Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, recently appointed Commander in Chief in India; the decision of temporary Gen Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, General Officer Commanding, 3 Army, British Armies in France, that Lt Gen Sir John Lindesay Keir, General Officer Commanding, 6 Corps, is unfit for service. 4pp.