NAM.1967-02-91

Inventory description: Documents relating to Maj Gen Sir Charles John Melliss VC (1862-1936); including his record of service, commissions, press cuttings, regimental orders, letters and diaries. Associated with the East Africa M'wele Campaign (1896), the 5th Ashanti War (1900); the Boer War (1899-1902); Somaliland (1901-1904), the Battles of Shaiba, Nasiriyah and Ctesiphon (1915), the Siege of Kut (1915-1916), and Prisoners of War, World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918).