Letter to Lt Dugmore from S D Shane at Mruli, 25 Jan 1898.
Discusses relief among the men with the arrival of an Englishman; seen as an honour. Some talk of logistics regarding canoes for watch on the Nile and discussion among the men of the Indian troops’ arrival at Kampala.
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.