letter, letter
Accession Number

NAM.2012-03-9-70

Description

Letter to Lt Dugmore from S D Shane at Mruli, 30 Jan 1898. Regards the previous information of mutineers at Kikoge and shows the confusion of where that could be as many place names are not clearly marked on the map. Shane has also offered a reward for the capture of a spy ‘emissary’ to the loyal troops at Mruli. 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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