Lord Roberts: Operation Telegrams between Field Marshal Lord Roberts and General Sir R Buller, 10th June to 23rd June 1900
telegram, telegram
Accession Number
NAM.1971-01-23-179-1
Description
Ts copies of 30 telegrams exchanged between Field Marshal Lord Roberts, as Supreme Commander in South Africa, and General Sir Redvers Buller, as Second in Command, June 1900, covering instructions and updates on the campaign in the Natal, including at Laing's Nek, Wakkerstroom, and Standerton; together with 3 ms letters relating to the 1902 Royal Commission on the War in South Africa (November - December 1902) and the statement supplied by Lord Roberts, and a ts account of the role of 9th Division up to the advance on Kimberley (February 1900).
Campaigns
Boer War (1899-1902)
