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Repository	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark
Ref No	RCS/SJW/MUS/3/18
Title	A letter from Lord Roberts of Kingsbury, Middlesex to Mr Barrand [?]
Date	26 May 1895
Level	Item
Description	The letter discusses furniture. Note: Roberts fought in the Boer War, between the British Army and Dutch South African Republic in South Africa. While the Boer War was still going on, he came back to Britain to take up the post of Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, which he held until 1904. He spent his retirement calling for compulsory military service and died in November 1914, while visiting Indian troops in the trenches of the First World War.

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