letter, letter
Accession Number

NAM.2012-03-9-1

Description

Letter to Lt Dugmore from Maj Pulteney, Scots Guards from Fadjau (Fajao), 9 Nov 1896. Regards the rewarding of mailmen, promises to send supplies of cloth and rice, and discusses the activities and movements of troops in the area; mentions the difficulty of controlling them. From a collection of 116 letters and papers relating to Lt William Francis Brougham Radcliffe Dugmore (1868-1917) during the Uganda Mutiny, November 1896-January 1899. Collected by W Lloyd-Jones, author of ‘KAR: being an unofficial account of the origins and activities of the King’s African Rifles’, 1920s.

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