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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
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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