G.J.S.

[ Lieut-Col. G. J. S. Scovell, Cameron Highlanders, later deputy Director-General of Recruiting. ] Typed paper, with autograph corrections, titled: 'Essay on the Causes of the South African War, 1899-1902, With the lessons learnt from it'.

Author: 
Lieut-Col. G. J. S. Scovell [ George Julian Selwyn Scovell ] (1881-1948), Cameron Highlanders, deputy Director-General of Recruiting, 1918, and General Secretary of National Liberal Party, 1919-1922
Publication details: 
'By G. J. S. Scovell. | Lieut | 1st Cameron High[land]ers.' Dublin | Dec. 1904'.
£950.00

Educated at Haileybury and Sandhurst, Scovell was gazetted to the Cameron Highlanders in 1900 and served with the regiment in the latter part of the Boer War (his diaries for the period being among material offered separately). The present paper is well-written and the fruit of experience. Scovell's views were clearly well-received, as he was appointed deputy Director-General of Recruiting at the end of the First World War. For more information about Scovell, see his entry in 'Who Was Who', and his obituary in The Times, 29 April 1948. The present item is 32pp., 4to.

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