Item GODLEY 3/115-142 - Letters to the Godleys from General Sir Ian Hamilton, 1913-1932, notably relating to Gallipoli

Letters to Godley and Louisa Marion Godley, Lady Godley, from Gen Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, notably an official military inspection tour of Canada, with an assessment of the standard of the infantry, artillery and cavalry, 1913; his departure from the post of Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Oct 1915; attempts to ensure that Godley be awarded a KCB for his service in Gallipoli, 1915-1916; views on the conclusions of the Dardanelles Report, and his prospects for future employment, Apr 1918; brief commentaries on events of the war, and praise for Godley and his troops, 1918; disagreements with Gen the Rt Hon Sir John Grenfell Maxwell in the Morning Post over Hamilton's claims concerning the supply of troops from Egypt to the Dardanelles in 1915, as articulated in his Gallipoli Diary (Edward Arnold, London, 1920), 1920; arrangements for and descriptions of a trip to Germany, 1922; responses to a speech made by Hamilton and printed in The Times of 26 Apr 1923, concerning the lack of resources for the training of Australian officers, despite the excellence of the Royal Military College at Duntroon, Canberra, Australia, 1923; correspondence relating to the Suvla Bay landings of Aug 1915 at Gallipoli, notably a cutting of a letter in The Times of 30 Oct 1923 from [Lt] John Still, previously Adjutant 6 Bn East Yorkshire Regt, giving an eyewitness account of operations on Scimitar Hill and Tekke Tepe, during 8-9 Aug 1915. 66pp.