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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 78

Documents
Arthur Conan Doyle
1900 (October) A.L.S. on letterhead of the Golden Cross Hotel, Charing Cross to the War Office, "Could you kindly tell me to what battery my brother Captain Hay Doyle, now of 1 battery R.H.A. has been transferred upon his promotion? We are anxious to know" and signed "A Conan Doyle". Some splitting along the central fold. Photo

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (1859 – 1930) was a British writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. In 1900, Doyle served in the Boer War as a volunteer doctor in the Langman Field Hospital at Bloemfontein between March and June. After return home he wrote a lengthy book, The Great Boer War, which sought to justify the British cause and to emphasise the great need for army reform and modernisation.



John Francis Innes Hay Doyle rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the Royal Field Artillery.

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