Description: | A large collection of interesting papers relating to Morland's career with the British Army, 1900 - 1924, including: six diaries (1900, 1901, 1903, 1906, 1908 and 1909) and miscellaneous documents relating to his service with the West African Frontier Force in Northern Nigeria, 1900 - 1903, and again as Inspector General, 1905 - 1910, with particular reference to the Kano - Sokoto Campaign, 1903; five diaries, 1914-18, and a large number of letters, October 1914 - February 1918, written to his daughters, Marjorie (Margie) and Phyllis (Phil), as commander of the 5th Division and X Corps giving his views on personalities, events and the progress of the war as well as family affairs; correspondence, 1914 - 1925, with fellow officers, notably Field Marshals the Earl of Cavan, Viscount Plumer and Sir Henry Wilson, and General Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1914 - 1925; and six diaries, 1919 - 1924, miscellaneous papers, and photographs, relating to his postwar service as Commander-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine, 1919 - 1922, and Aldershot Command, 1922 - 1924, when he resigned having developed tuberculosis.
Cataloguer SNR
Catalogue date 1994-05-11 |