Manuscript letter dated 19 Jan 1919.
Written by Maj H S Cardew MC to the Under Secretary of State for India, Military Department, giving recommendations for awards to men of 34th (Divisional Signal Coy) Sappers and Miners.
From a collection of manuscript diaries and other papers relating to the service of Lt Col Henry Spencer Cardew, MC, 1/39th Garhwalis, as a  Signals Officer with 34th Signal Company, 6th (Poona) Division in Mesopotamia, September 1915- April 1916 and his subsequent captivity after the capture at Kut al Amara.
Associated with the Battle of Es Sinn (1915), the Battle of Ctesiphon (1915) and the Siege of Kut (1915-1916), World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918) and World War One, POWs (1914-1918).