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From Reserve Regiment O/C A Squadron
2/1st Lothians and Border Horse
To The Adjutant
2/1st L&B Horse. 7 Wemyss Place, Edinburgh, 13 March 1916. Re: Pte.Atwell has spoken
to me regarding his application
for a recommendation for a course
of training in an Officers
Training Corps. Pte.Atwell is a
most hard working & willing
man & I would now, if I had
not done so before, askrecommend
him for promotion except for the
fact that he is not a good
horseman. Would the Commanding
Officer seeing Pte.
Atwell himself so that he
may form his own impression
of him personally! Pte.Atwell informs
me that he joined the Regiment
because he wished to serve
in the trenches but that he has
all along aimed for getting a
Commission in an Infantry Regt. Arthur Smith Warling capt
Letter to the Adjutant of the 2/1st Lothian and Border Horse from Captain Arthur Smith
Warling concerning Private Robert Atwell's desire for a commission and a course of
training in the officer training corps. The letter recommends Atwell for the Commission
as he is a good soldier with the exception of his horsemanship. This letter was part
of the papers of Sir Henry Christopher Grattan Bellew (1860-1942), the third baronet
of Mount Bellew in County Galway. He held the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 4th Battalion
Connaught Rangers. His son, sir Charles Christopher (1887-1948) held the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel,
King's Royal Rifle Corps. He was decorated with the award of the Military Cross (M.C.)
in 1918