letter, letter
Accession Number
NAM.1981-12-53-320
Description
Letter to William Warre from Col Sir Benjamin D’Urban, Deputy Quarter Master General, Horse Guards, 17 Nov 1819. Advises Warre to ask Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave to further his claim with Bathurst, possibly a claim for decorations. One of 216 papers in the collection relating to William Warre’s period of home service and unemployment, 1818-1823. From a collection of 566 papers of Lt Gen Sir William Warre (1784-1853) relating to his military career, 1807-1851. Phipps was Warre’s brother-in-law - Warre’s wife Selina Anna Maling and Phipps’s wife Martha Sophia Maling were sisters.
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