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Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts VC Photograph with signed Personal Letter
£275.00
Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts VC. A photograph of Lord Roberts in full Field Marshals Uniform with a signed personal letter dated 13 November 1912 (just two years to the day before he died). From his home address in Ascot, to a Mr Sampson, thanking him for a supportive speech highlighting the impending ‘critical position the country is in’. Roberts was fully aware of the impending war with Germany and had for some years tried to get the government to increase investment in defence. Roberts was one of the greatest Victorian Generals, fighting may of the great campaigns. He died on the very outbreak of World War One, November 1914.
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CX1630188766
Letter reads:
Dear Sampson,
Many thanks for your letter of the 10th instant and for what you said about me at the meeting at Lindfield. We must make a determined effort now to get the people to understand the critical position the country is in, and I am much obliged to you for speaking out as you did.
Yours sincerely, Roberts.