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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)	JCLAdd/565
Title	Letter from Joseph Chamberlain [as Secretary of State], Colonial Office to General Woodgate [Sir Edward Robert Prevost Woodgate (1845-1900, Major General)], 8 January. With envelope addressed to Major General E. R. P. Woodgate, C.B. C.M.G., Field Force, South Africa, stamped Secretary of State, Colonial Department and London Official paid, 8 January
Extent	2 items
Date	1900
Description	Expresses pleasure and offers congratulations at Woodgate's promotion 'in the Order of St Michael and St George in recognition of the valuable services...rendered in Sierra Leone' [where he organised the West African Regiment]. The reference to Woodagte going on to serve his country in another part of Africa is a reference to his transfer to South Africa. He had arrived in Durban in December 1899 and in January occupied Spion Kop with the Lancashire Brigade. He died from wounds received there on 23 March
Access Status	Open

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