CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Typed letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill") as Acting Secretary of State for War to Louis Botha, Whitehall, 1 July 1919.

One page on embossed War Office stationery, 10 x 7 ¾ in. (25.4 x 19.5 cm.). Additionally signed ("W") following his handwritten postscript.

Demobilizing South African laborers at the end of the First World War. Churchill reports on the return of South African workers en route home: "The Cape Coloured Labour Corps was to have been released at the end of last month. On the Cape Auxiliary Horse Transport men in France who now number about 3,000, 2,000 will be embarked on the 'Chepstow Castle' which is sailing shortly… this will leave only 1,000, who will be repatriated as soon as transport can be arranged.”