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Description: | Outstanding collection of papers covering his service in South Africa as DAAG Royal Artillery during the Boer War with many original sketches and other documents as well as contemporary transcripts of his diaries (January 1900 - November 1902), which contain excellent references to Field Marshals Lord Kitchener and Lord Roberts and to General Buller as well as giving graphic descriptions of operations against the enemy; papers relating to the Curragh Mutiny in Ireland (March 1914); his service on the Western Front (1914 - 1916) as Brigadier General, Royal Artillery, 5th Division, and then Major General, Royal Artillery, attached to Second Army and GHQ, including transcripts of his letters (August 1914 - October 1916) and other documents with particular reference to the Battles of Le Cateau and Loos; his missions to Italy (1916), Russia (where he was Senior British Military Delegate at the Petrograd Conference, 1917) and the United States (where he headed the British Artillery Mission, 1918 - 1919) with excellent material on Russia during the early stages of the Revolution and letters relating to Captain G N Nash, a prisoner of war in the hands of the Bolsheviks, 1918 - 1919; also various correspondence, written during both world wars, from his wife, his cousin, the Right Reverend A C Headlam, Bishop of Gloucester and other relatives, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Field Marshal Lord Milne and other senior commanders from France, Belgium and the United States.
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Catalogue date 2003-09 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Headlam, John | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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