NAM.1981-08-9-2-1

Volume of 6 MS letters and copies inscribed ‘Orders and Decorations’. From the Papers of Gen Sir Frederick Haines (1819-1909) as Commander in Chief in India 1875-1881. Associated with 2nd Afghan War (1878-1881) and North West Frontier. Lytton to Haines 23 Sept 1876, on the extension of the Order of the Star of India. Haines to Lytton (copy) 23 or 24 Sept 1876, on the problems associated with the extension. Lytton to Haines 29 Jan 1876 (recte 1877), on the problems of wearing the Imperial Assemblage Medal. Haines to Lytton (copy) 4 Feb 1887, replying to last, and suggesting that the Duke of Cambridge be consulted with regard to the wearing of the medal by British officers. Haines to Lytton (copy) 5 Apl 1877, recommending Maj Gens Alexander MacDonald and Lumsden, and Br Gen Keyes for the KCB, and Col Hatch and Br Gen Ross for the CB. Haines to Thomas H? Thornton (Punjab Govt?) (copy) 23 Jul 1877, advising him to contact the Governments of Madras and Bombay for details of Indian soldiers to be nominated for the Order of the Indian Empire.