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Accession Number

NAM.2005-07-747-2

Description

Letter, dated 2 Oct 1932. From Capt Henry Whalley-Kelly, Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) to Maj Ernest Ross-Magenty, 11th Sikh Regiment, staff officer with Brig Gen Geoffrey Howell, Southern Command. Relates to Munich and the international crisis, proposed reorganisation of the Indian Army, officer training, attitude of Congress to possible war and imminent departure for new duties. Relating to the service of Capt Henry Whalley-Kelly, Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment), who at the time of writing was responsible for Auxiliary and Territorial Forces whilst serving on the Staff of Southern Command, Indian Army, which had its headquarters at Poona.