Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from James Monatagu Frank Drummond

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from James Montagu Frank Drummond containing personal news, mainly concerning the progress of his army training. He describes drills, field exercises and night exercises and remarks that he hopes to be commissioned soon but that this might be delayed due to the outbreak of German Measles amongst the corps. He asks Bower to keep this confidential until a public announcement has been made. He also describes items of botanical interest in the area of Hertfordshire in which he is training

• Botany
• Drill and Minor Tactics
• Military Training Camps
• Rubella
• World War, 1914-1918

• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• Drummond | James Montagu Frank | 1881-1965 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow

• Hertfordshire (England)