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NAM.2000-05-133-1

Description

Manuscript letter from George, Prince of Wales, (later George V), to Lt Gen Sir John French, Commanding 1st Army Corps at Aldershot, 26 May 1904; the Prince noted that, ‘I hope [I] have shown you that I take just as much interest in the Army as I do in the Navy. My great wish is to bring our two great Services as much together as possible’.

Units

1 Corps
Royal Navy

People

George V, (1865-1936)
John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, (1852 - 1925)

Associated collection
John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, (1852 - 1925)
Fisher of Kilverstone, John Arbuthnot (Jacky), 1st Baron
Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton GCB GCVO, (1845-1931)
Connaught and Strathearn, Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of, (1850-1942)
Eyre MacDonnell Stewart Crabbe, (1852 - 1905)
Herbert Charles Onslow, 1st Viscount Plumer, (1857 - 1932)
Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, (1859-1929)
Good Hope
Sir Arthur Henry Fitzroy Paget GCB GCVO, (1851 - 1928)
Fawkes, Sir Wilmot Hawksworth
Maitland
Lawson
Douglas
Fawkes, Lionel Grimston
‘First Combined Naval and Military Manoeuvres Disembarkation and reembarkation at Clacton on Sea September 1904’
Width: 564 mm
Text: 380 mm
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