Letter

Scope and Content

Letter from Lt.-Gen. N.M. [Neil] Ritchie to Auchinleck, expressing his conviction that, in planning an offensive, no reliance should be placed on the use of Benghazi as a port until the enemy has been cleared out of Cyrenaica; and describing reports he has received that the Commando personnel are neither hard nor fit, and that their discipline is poor. Typescript, signed, with a holograph postscript.