letter, letter
Accession Number

NAM.2012-03-9-15

Description

Letter to Lt Dugmore from Dr W I Ansorge from Kibero, 11 Oct 1897. 2 leaves. Regards the ‘passing’ and ‘rejecting’ of recruits, as well as questions regarding the number of men to be sent to Dugmore. Included is a copy of the ‘Detachment of No. 14 Coy at Hoima: Pay and Rations for July and August 1897’ with added comments from Ansorge. 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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