Note 336 — Chapter XLIX · ADJUTANT-GENERAL—Continued
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Copy of letter to the Military Secretary:—
“1st February 1901.
“My Dear Grove,—I have thought over your query, ‘If Lord Roberts invited you, would you go out to South Africa and serve under Lord Kitchener?’ I do not think the fact that Kitchener joined me in 1883 as a Lieutenant, when I was raising the Egyptian Army, should influence my decision. If it is thought I can serve our Country by going out, I will willingly go, and serve under Kitchener on the following assumptions: (a) If I am not killed, I come back here if I so desire, and that my South Africa time is not deducted. This was done in Lord Wolseley’s case, (b) That if Lord Kitchener becomes a casualty, no one junior to me shall come out to supersede me.”