NAM.2001-07-1162-72

Two page letter (typescript contemporary copy) to HM’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, from Lt Col J Hayes Sadler and C Eliot, Entebbe, Uganda, 9 Sept 1903, and Mombasa, 17 Sept 1903, proposing that ‘a permanent staff of officers for the King’s African Rifles in East Africa, Uganda, Central Africa, and Somaliland be considered’, and giving recommendations. Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe was Commissioner, Commander-in-Chief and Consul General, Uganda Protectorate 1900 (c). James Hayes Sadler was Commissioner, Commander-in-Chief and Consul General, Uganda Protectorate 1901-1905. From papers associated with Col Arthur Horsman Coles, 1885-1905. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.