King's Own Royal Regiment Museum - General Hunter Archive

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Hunter Archive Home HOME Museum & Collections Sales Donations Events Contact Us REGIMENTAL HISTORY 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century First World War Second World War Actions & Movements Battle Honours FAMILY HISTORY Resources Further Reading PHOTO GALLERY ENQUIRIES FURTHER READING LINKS		Archive of General Sir Archibald Hunter GCB GCVO DSO TD LLD at the King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster. Haig - Hunter Letters Letter from Major D Haig, as Brigade Major, 1st Cavalry Brigade, Aldershot, dated 26 Jun 1899 to Major H D Jones concerning Sergeant J Clare of the 13th Hussars giving evidence before the committee on the Military Penal System. Accession Number: KO2686/125 Letter to Hunter dated 4 Jan 1917 from Field Marshal Douglas Haig regarding his recent promotion to Field Marshal Accession Number: KO2686/064 Letter to Hunter from Field Marshal Douglas Haig dated 26 Nov 1918 from General Headquarters, British Armies in France. “General Headquarters, British Armies in France Nov 26. 18. My dear Hunter, Very many thanks for your kind letter. To have been privileged to command the Splendid Army is a sufficient honour for me - I don’t want any other. In any case I shall not accept anything until the Pensions for Disabled Officers and Men as well as batta for the whole of the forces under my command are satisfactorily arranged. Thanks again Yours very truly D Haig” * “Batta” a word used to described the ‘dividend’ from a campaign’s loot or similar. Haig at this stage in the war would be very sure that every document he wrote would be kept and studied by future generations and therefore he would write nothing without a view to many people having sight of it. Accession Number: KO2686/072