Item ROBERTSON, WR 7/7/46 - Letter from Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig to Robertson, 22 Aug 1917, about the progress of the Third Battle of Ypres and maintaining troop strengths

Letter to Robertson from FM Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, notably outlining measures being taken by the British Armies in France to comb out men from the rearwards services to replace wastage in the firing line, and enclosing a report of a conference held at Advanced Headquarters on the subject; Haig's belief that all resources should be concentrated on the Western Front, in order to prevent the Germans re-equipping during the winter; a brief description of recent fighting in the Third Battle of Ypres on the Western Front, notably a successful 2 Corps attack which gained the high ground above Inverness Copse, on the Passchendale Ridge. 10pp.