NAM.2003-02-250

Inventory description: 15 ms letters sent by Gen Sir Edmund Allenby to Maj C W Battine, military correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, between 1916 and 1918, during his command of Third Army on the Western Front and of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, including discussions of events and military advances under his command; together with an earlier ms letter (1905) from Chakrata, India, and papers relating to Capt J D C S MacRae, Scots Guards (1942); associated with World War One, Egypt and Palestine (1914-1918), World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), Ireland (1916-1922) and World War Two, Middle East (1940-1942).