letter, letter
Accession Number

NAM.2012-03-9-100

Description

Letter to Lt Dugmore, possibly from H J Madochs in Kampala, 11 Jan 1899. 2 leaves. Tells of a few of the fights with the mutineers and mentions that they have become difficult to fight since they generally run and refuse to stand. Mentions some failed attacks on the mutineers by Major Cyril Martyr. 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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