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LAWSON
(Sir Henry Merrick, 1859-1933, Lieutenant-General during World War I)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
replying to a letter asking him for his autograph, which I am happy to let you have although it is of no value at all - I return your postage stamp. I am sorry you have not so far succeeded in getting an autograph of Lord Kitchener whose genuine greatness should never be forgotten and who towered above all his contemporaries. Perhaps if you wrote to his brother, the present Earl Kitchener, he might send you one..., 2 sides oblong 8vo.., 78 Carlisle Mansions, SW1, 25th April
Item Date: 1930
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Background
He took part in the Suakin Expedition and Nile Expedition in 1884 and served in the Egyptian Army during the Mahdist War in 1898. He served in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902, and following the end of the war in June 1902 stayed on as Deputy-Adjutant and Quartermaster-General to the Forces in South Africa. He went on to be Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff in November 1914, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Northern Command in succession to Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Plumer in January 1915 and then went into Special Service at the front in 1916.
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