NAM.2000-01-29-159

MS copies of correspondence between Climo and the Adjutant General’s Office, 31 Jan - 16 Aug 1894, relating to his application for a pecuniary award for highlighting the economic advantages to the government of introducing coir for soldiers’ bedding in the UK . With Printed ‘Estimated saving to Government by the substitution of coir for palliasse straw for troops serving in the United Kingdom’ Papers of Bde Sgn Lt Col William Hill Climo, Medical Staff, 1857-1919 (c).