(Major-General Sir Pomeroy, army officer, 1866-1955) & Brigadier General Cyril Eustace Palmer, army officer, Royal Artillery, commanded the "Kissi" Field Force, West Africa, 1870-1939, both men served in India, South Africa, Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Western Front. Combined archive relating to his life in the army, including: documents, some printed (Instructions as Regard Outfit for the Guidance of British Officers Joining the Egyptian Army, Report from Maj Genl. J. Campbell... on the on the Swat, Burmese & Mohmand Borders, Record for Officers' Services... Holland-Pryor, Army Form Headquarters, Contract Between The Sirdar... Egypt... Major C.E. Palmer... to serve in the Egyptian Army... £720 per annum... 1912, Egyptian Army, Khartoum, 1914, Certificate for Mentioned in Despatches with printed Churchill signature made out to Major E.A. Parker; Mesopotamia Expeditionary 1917; 40th Division... Casualties... 1918, Annual Confidential Report), letters, including an album with letters and cut signatures, including: Queen Victoria, Lord Roberts, Clive Wigram, J.M. Barrie, W.H.C. Wyllie, Lord Ponsonby, ("My dear Peyton, I want to bring to your notice the really excellent work done by Palmer & the 40th Div. Artillery"), photographs (bodies of dead British soldiers at the battle of Spion Kop, South Africa, northwest frontier, School of Musketry, Changla Gali, Galyat, now Pakistan, portrait of Holland-Pryor), medal ribbons, folding map (British Battles During 1918), & a watercolour portrait of Holland-Pryor in army uniform, signed P. Tennyson ?Couts Simla 1926", housed in a small contemporary tin travelling trunk, v.s., v.d. (qty). *** Artillery at Gommecourt, 1918. "(1) The shooting of our H.A. on the 24th was nothing short of disgraceful. The whole of our front including ERVILLERS & GOMMIECOURT was heavily bombarded between 4 and 5 from long before our troops were clear: in fact they were holdiung the line about 500 [?feet] E of GOMMIECOURT. As soon as I got to COURCELLES I sent an officer to the nearest H.A. Group to give them the situation as far as I knew it."
(Major-General Sir Pomeroy, army officer, 1866-1955) & Brigadier General Cyril Eustace Palmer, army officer, Royal Artillery, commanded the "Kissi" Field Force, West Africa, 1870-1939, both men served in India, South Africa, Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Western Front. Combined archive relating to his life in the army, including: documents, some printed (Instructions as Regard Outfit for the Guidance of British Officers Joining the Egyptian Army, Report from Maj Genl. J. Campbell... on the on the Swat, Burmese & Mohmand Borders, Record for Officers' Services... Holland-Pryor, Army Form Headquarters, Contract Between The Sirdar... Egypt... Major C.E. Palmer... to serve in the Egyptian Army... £720 per annum... 1912, Egyptian Army, Khartoum, 1914, Certificate for Mentioned in Despatches with printed Churchill signature made out to Major E.A. Parker; Mesopotamia Expeditionary 1917; 40th Division... Casualties... 1918, Annual Confidential Report), letters, including an album with letters and cut signatures, including: Queen Victoria, Lord Roberts, Clive Wigram, J.M. Barrie, W.H.C. Wyllie, Lord Ponsonby, ("My dear Peyton, I want to bring to your notice the really excellent work done by Palmer & the 40th Div. Artillery"), photographs (bodies of dead British soldiers at the battle of Spion Kop, South Africa, northwest frontier, School of Musketry, Changla Gali, Galyat, now Pakistan, portrait of Holland-Pryor), medal ribbons, folding map (British Battles During 1918), & a watercolour portrait of Holland-Pryor in army uniform, signed P. Tennyson ?Couts Simla 1926", housed in a small contemporary tin travelling trunk, v.s., v.d. (qty). *** Artillery at Gommecourt, 1918. "(1) The shooting of our H.A. on the 24th was nothing short of disgraceful. The whole of our front including ERVILLERS & GOMMIECOURT was heavily bombarded between 4 and 5 from long before our troops were clear: in fact they were holdiung the line about 500 [?feet] E of GOMMIECOURT. As soon as I got to COURCELLES I sent an officer to the nearest H.A. Group to give them the situation as far as I knew it."
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