BETHUNE (Sir Edward Cecil, 1855-1930, Lieutenant General in the Boer War an then the First World War)

Autograph Letter Signed to "My dear Concanon" thanking him for "sending me the Scouts List. I cannot thank you enough for your kind support on Monday. Men like you on a pubic platform are a guarantee of the soundness of any views put forward by a speaker. I rubbed it in again at the Caledonian Dinner. I proposed the City & Commerce of Liverpool & told them at the end that if they could not defend it, all the glories of the city were a myth! ...", 2 sides 8vo., Headquarters, West Lancashire Division, Liverpool headed paper, Friday, 1st December no year, circa

Bethune raised and led his own regiment, Bethune's Mounted Infantry, in the Second Boer War and directed the Territorials in the First World War. He became General Officer Commanding West Lancashire Division, Territorial Force, Western Command, in 1909.

Item Date:  1910

Stock No:  40861      £55

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