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"One of the Largest Private Collections to Come on the Market"Churchill Signed Letter + Kitchener Signed Photo
Letter From Winston Churchill to Lord Kitchener + Signed Photograph of Lord Kitchener
Letter:
2 page typed letter signed by Winston Churchill on Admiralty Whitehall letterhead dated 8th April 1915.
The salutation, sentiment and signature is hand-written by Churchill in black ink:
“My dear Kitchener,
…
Yours Sincerely
Winston S. Churchill”
First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill wrote this letter, dated 8th April 1915, to Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War expressing his concern over the replacement of marines and seamen’s rifles with Japanese weapons.Theirs was a frosty relationship, though Kitchener was eventually persuaded to support the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign.
Pencil notes in an unidentified clerical hand to lower left margins of first page, with four pinholes to the top edge, a mild horizontal letter fold and creases to upper right corners.
Accompanied by COA
Condition: Near Fine
Photograph
Photograph signed by Lord Kitchener
Measures approx. 4.75″ x 7.5″
Mounted on board
Condition: Near Fine
Item #152
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The British Authorities ordered over 150,000 Japanese guns shortly after World War One began in August 1914, a mixed batch of 30th and 38th Year type rifles. Most of these rifles were used by training battalions but T.E. Lawrence suggests that at least a few reached the Middle East and were likely part of a 20,000- gun consignment of Ariska rifles issued to the Royal Navy from June 15 1915 to free Lee-Enfields for land service.
Japanese rifles also served the Royal Flying Corps and its 1918 successor, the Royal Air Force. The Ariskas were soon recalled, the Navy guns being replaced by Canadian Ross–rifles in April-June 1917.
About 128,000 assorted Japanese guns were subsequently sent from Britain to Russia and the patterns were declared obsolete in British service in 1921 (John Walter, Rifles of the World, 3rd ed. 2006, p.33)
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