letter, letter
Accession Number
NAM.2012-03-9-2
Description
Letter to Lt Dugmore from Maj Pulteney, Scots Guards from Fadjau (Fajao), 14 Nov 1896. Promises to send livestock and rice to help fight starvation at the other camp and ‘keep the revolt off for a bit.’ Recommends a schedule for paying the men, mentions difficulties of clearing land for crops and expresses concerns over a lack of letters arriving from other camps. 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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