King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975

Service biography
Joined 4 King's Own Royal Lancaster Regt 1874; Governor of Dongola Province and Commandant Frontier Field Force 1895-1899; Governor of Omdurman, Sudan 1899; Lt Gen on staff and Commander, 10 Div, South African War 1900-1901; Commander, Scotland 1901-1903; Western Army Corps, India 1904-1907; Southern Army, Indian Army 1907-1909; Governor and Commander-in-Chief Gibraltar 1910-1913; General Officer Commanding 13 (Western) Div 1914; World War I 1914-1918; Commander, 3 Army 1914; retired 1918; MP (Coalition Unionist), Lancaster 1918-1922

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: The papers of Maj Gen Sir Frederick (Barton) Maurice include five letters from Hunter to Gen Sir John Frederick Maurice (father of Maj Gen Sir Frederick (Barton) Maurice) 1885-1898, from Sudan, with comment on the state of the Egyptian Army, the then current situation in Sudan, and the battle of Omdurman, Sep 1898 (ref: Maurice 2/1/1-5) HOVE REFERENCE LIBRARY: The papers of FM Garnet Joesph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley include a few letters from Hunter 1899

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES North Africa 1885-1898
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