| Title | Letter from D. MacDougall, late lieutenant-colonel commanding the 79th Highlanders, to Sidney Herbert relative to those clauses in the report on promotion and retirement allowing field officers who sell out of the army shall be retained in the army list, with the right of wearing their uniforms. MacDougall request that this should be designed to have a “retrospect effect”. Appended note by Mr. John Croomes. July 26. |