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D3287 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - [13th-20th cent]
- BSA - British South Africa Company
  - 3 - British South Africa Company: general papers.

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D3287/BSA/3/65
Title	E.A.S. Gell [a cousin of P.L.G.], Fourteen Streams, South Africa, to Edith Gell
Date	14 Mar 1901
Description	[copy letter] giving account of his campaigns as chaplain in the 1st Div.; impressions of Lord Methuen; battle at Hartebeest-fontein; capture of renegade Pierson, attempt to have him exchanged for Major Paget [Paget's name is deleted by P.L.G. & the whole passage is marked 'Confidential']
Level	file
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	British South Africa Company
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Privacy Notice	Data Subjects in Archives Privacy Notice
Term	Boer War (1899-1902)
	Military personnel
	Letters (documents)
	Chaplains

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