Key Information
Reference code
ROBERTSON, WR 8/4/16
Title
Letter from General Sir Edmund Barrow to Robertson, 21 Mar 1916, on subjects including planned operations on the North West Frontier, India
Date(s)
- 1916 Mar 21 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
7pp
Scope and content
Letter to Robertson from Gen Sir Edmund (George) Barrow, Military Secretary to the India Office, on the possible despatch to India of two British divisions now in Egypt, and doubts in the India Office as to the wisdom of an offensive campaign on the North-West Frontier; requesting the provision of guns and ammunition to the Idrisi on the Red Sea Coast. Including copies of telegrams between Robertson, Gen Sir Beauchamp Duff, Commander in Chief in India, Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Viceroy of India, and the Rt Hon (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, concerning the proposed Indian Army offensive on the North-West Frontier against Afghanistan. 7pp.