Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1898-1927 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
½ box or 0.005 cubic metres
Scope and content
Photocopies of correspondence and photographs, taken from five albums, relating to Sclater's career, 1898-1927, including letter from FM Sir (Henry) Evelyn Wood, Adjutant General to the Forces, confirming Sclater's appointment as Bde Maj, Aldershot, 1898; seventeen copies of photographs and nine sketch maps relating to the Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902, including photographs of Bloemfontein and Brandfort, Orange Free State, and sketch maps of the Battles of Modder River, Nov 1899 and Paardeberg Drift, Feb 1900; two photographs of the 13 pounder Quick Fire gun, newly issued to the Royal Horse Artillery, 1904; letter from Lt Col Rt Hon Arthur John Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham, thanking Sclater for congratulatory letter on the award of a peerage to Stamfordham, 1911; three photographs of Indian Army sepoys, 1912; correspondence, 1912- 1917, including letters relating to recruitment, military inspections and the availability of manpower from FM Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, Feb 1917, Gen Sir (Henry Macleod) Leslie Rundle, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, Feb-May 1916, and Lt Gen Sir (Cecil Frederick) Nevil Macready, Adjutant General to the Forces, Jul 1917; letter to Slater from Gen Sir (Francis) Reginald Wingate, relating to riots in Egypt, Jun 1920; letter to Sclater from Lt Gen Sir George Fletcher MacMunn, Quartermaster General, India, dated Jun 1921, relating to the political and military situation in India, particularly in the aftermath of the massacre of 479 Indian civilians by troops of the Indian Army, commanded by Brig Gen Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, Amritsar, Punjab, Apr 1919; printed obituary of Sclater [1927].
System of arrangement
The collection is arranged chronologically.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1855; educated at Cheltenham; commissioned into the Royal Artillery, 1875; Capt, 1883; served as Staff Officer and Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Nile Expedition, Sudan, 1884-1885; Brevet Maj, 1885; Egyptian Frontier Field Force, 1885-1886; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Cairo, Egypt, 1885-1890; Maj, 1891; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Royal Artillery, Headquarters, Ireland, 1892-1895; Deputy Assistant Inspector General of the Ordnance, War Office, 1895-1898; Bde Maj, Aldershot, 1898-1899; Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902; Staff Officer, Royal Artillery, South Africa, 1899-1900; Assistant Adjutant General, Royal Artillery and Col on Staff, Royal Artillery, South Africa, 1900-1902; Lt Col, 1900; Brevet Col, 1900; awarded CB, 1902; Col, 1902; Deputy Director General of the Ordnance, 1902-1904; Director of Artillery, War Office, 1904; Quartermaster General, India, 1904-1908; Maj Gen, 1906; General Officer Commanding Quetta Div, India, 1908-1912; Lt Gen, 1911; created KCB, 1913; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Adjutant General to the Forces and Member of Army Council, 1914-1916; appointed GCB, 1916; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Command, 1916-1919; Gen, 1919; appointed GBE, 1919; retired 1922; died 1923.
Repository
Custodial history
Copies made by the Centre from originals loaned by the family in 1982.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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Related materials
Note
Decorations: GCB, GBE
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Artillery
- Colonial countries
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Labour market
- Manpower
- Maps
- Military equipment
- Military manpower
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- Photographs
- Political systems
- Second Boer War, 1899-1902
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- Weapons
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
- South Asia, India, Amritsar
- Southern Africa, South Africa, Free State, Bloemfontein
- Southern Africa, South Africa, Brandfort
- North Africa, Egypt
- Southern Africa, South Africa, river, Modder
- Southern Africa, South Africa, Orange Free State
- Southern Africa, South Africa, Province of the Northern Cape, Paardeberg
- South Asia, Punjab
People and Organisations
- Bigge, Arthur John, 1849-1931, 1st Baron Stamfordham (Subject)
- Dyer, Reginald Edward Harry, 1864-1927, Brigadier General (Subject)
- French, John Denstone Pinkstone, 1852-1925, 1st Earl of Ypres, Field Marshal (Subject)
- MacMunn, Sir George Fletcher, 1869-1952, Knight, Lieutenant General (Subject)
- Macready, Sir Cecil Frederick Nevil, 1891-1956, 1st Baronet, General (Subject)
- Rundle, Henry Macleod Leslie, 1856-1934, General (Subject)
- Wingate, Sir Francis Reginald, 1861-1953, Knight, General (Subject)
- Wood, Sir Henry Evelyn, 1838-1919, Knight, Field Marshal (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- Indian Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.