Buxton

[tr ed p 544], pencil, Roberts, 180 x 138 mm

'Buxton' typeset brc of border, artist's signature, 'William Roberts', trc of illustration, which is in black/grey on palest pastel green background, with palest pastel beige border.

Lt-Colonel Robin Buxton, Commanding Officer of the Imperial Camel Corps, Director of Martin's Bank, and financial manager for SP.

pp 524/5 [tr ed p 538] - 'Colonel Buxton, with three hundred men, was lent to us for a month on two conditions: first, that we should forthwith furnish their scheme of operations; second, that they should have no casualties. Bartholomew felt it necessary to apologize for the last magnificent, heart-warming condition, which he thought unsoldierly.'

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