Colonel Charles Vernon Hume Historic Achieve

Colonel Charles Vernon Hume (1860-1915), a group of archival papers and other items, including: four Boer War period equestrian painted envelopes dated 1900, to Major Hume Intelligence Dept. Headquarters Staff, South Africa testimonial for C V Hume when ADC to the Commander-in-Chief in Burma, 1887 few small portrait photographs; Buckingham Palace permissions dated 1911 to wear Japanese Order of the Rising Sun and The White Elephant conferred by the King of Siam; Book The War of the Polish Succession by The Crown Prince of Siam inscribed by the author to C V Hume, 1901 Japanese postcards of early 20th century date; press cuttings on his death in 1915 Hume served in various official posts, including Military Attache at Tokyo from 1903 to 1907. He was Military Governor to the Crown Prince of Siam from 1896, when he came to study in England. Mrs Hume was granted a pension of £120 a year after her husband’s death in 1915.