- Title:
- Army Staff great coat worn by Field Marshal Lord Roberts, VC, 1910 (c).
- Object name(s):
- great coat
- Brief description:
- Army Staff great coat worn by Field Marshal Lord Roberts, VC, 1910 (c). Frederick Sleigh Roberts, known as ‘Bobs’ was commissioned into the Bengal Artillery in 1851. Much of his subsequent career was spent as a Staff officer but he still saw a good deal of active service. Roberts won the Victoria Cross in the Indian Mutiny, but first came to public notice when he led his troops on the legendary 480 km march from Kabul to Kandahar, during the 2nd Afghan War. In 1885 he succeeded to the post of Commander-in-Chief, India, a position he held until 1893. After the early reverses of the Boer War, Roberts took over command of the British forces in South Africa. Together with his Chief of Staff Major-General Horatio Herbert, Lord Kitchener; Roberts revitalised the British military effort. He finally handed over command to Kitchener on 29 November 1900 at the age of 68. Roberts then served as the last Commander-in-Chief of the British Army for three years before the post was abolished in 1904.
- Collection:
- National Army Museum
- Associated concept:
- Uniforms
- Current location:
- National Army Museum, Study Collection
- Object name:
- great coat
- Object number:
- NAM. 1971-01-30-8
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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