Item ROBERTSON, WR 7/6/73 - Letter from General Sir Douglas Haig to Robertson, 1 Sep 1916, about operations on the Western Front

Letter to Robertson from Gen Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, on a letter from French Gen Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, Commander in Chief, French Armies on the Western Front, concerning the performance of British troops during the continuing Battles of the Somme, and the date of the British attack in Sep (Battle of Flers-Courcelette); enclosing a memorandum outlining figures relating to the strength of the British Army on the Western Front (not included), which the French claimed Robertson had given them; a brief description of a German attack on the British front from High Wood to Dolville. 4pp.