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 his "kind letter and enclosure. At our last meeting we settled to take an office and get a secretary at once. As we had no funds we agreed, for a start, to try & get our friends to help us a bit. I guaranteed £10 & got it in sovereigns, half sovereigns and silver from the Club. Others of the Committee are doing the same and that is the true meaning of my circular. I hope we shall meet next time I come to Liverpool ...", 3 sides 8vo., 94 Piccadilly, 2nd June

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:  1912

Stock No:  40862      £55

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