Letter to Lt Dugmore from Dr W I Ansorge in Masindi, 17 Jan 1898.
Ansorge details murmurings of discontent among his escort on his return to Marindi. Mentions the importance of which garrisons have guns and in their unwillingness to have them removed; soldiers have spoken of using violence to keep them from being taken by ‘the white man.’
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.