WAVELL Sir Archibald, 1st Earl Wavell - TLS 1950 regarding the 7th Gurkhas and the Black Watch tartan Category_Literature

WAVELL Sir Archibald, 1st Earl Wavell - TLS 1950 regarding the 7th Gurkhas and the Black Watch tartan Category_LiteratureSir Archibald WAVELL, 1st Earl Wavell (1883 1950) Typed Letter Signed (Wavell) to General Sir Sidney Kirkman, confirming that the 7th Gurkhas have permission to wear the Black Watch tartan on their pipe bags. 1 page 8vo, 23 Kingston House South, SW7, 6 February 1950. Thank you for your letter of the 2nd February about the 7th Gurkhas. I will certainly confirm the permission granted to them in 1926 by the then Colonel of The Black Watch to wear our

Wellington nevertheless ends the letter to his niece “most affectionately”

David WILKIE (1785-1841)

I believe that he & all those brave men who have fallen are required for some special service elsewhere & are perhaps nearer to us now than we have any idea of

whose work with the young Vic-Wells Ballet was an important part of its ultimate success

the Scottish poet and playwright Joanna Baillie

On the verso is a note in another hand "Per l'autentica dalle firma

He continues

eventually

It was being bombarded from all our anti aircraft guns (eg about 2) & was soon followed by a British aero

The poet Chandos Leigh was a school friend of Lord Byron

Remains of guard at the left margin

the only thing which worries me is that of the occupation of Turkey