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DocRefNoCR0341/339/5
LevelPiece
TitleLetter from Henry Ponsonby to Lord Airey, with note from Airey to George Henry Waller
Date24-25 Mar 1881
DescriptionLetter: 24 March: written from Windsor Castle: thanks for Colonel Waller's photograph, which, by the Queen's command, he has placed in the Book of Records of the Fusiliers. Note added: 25 March: sending him the Queen 's gracious decision of placing his photograph in the Record Book of the 7th Fusiliers.
Sheet, with 2 pages of text.
[Henry Ponsonby (1825-1891) was Private Secretary to the Sovereign, 1870-1895. Richard Airey (1803-1881) had a long and distinguished career in the Army and was created a Baron in 1876.]
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