Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 13/59
Title
Correspondence with Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes, 1919-1944, chiefly greetings
Date(s)
- 1919 Feb 20 - 1944 Dec 8 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file, 124 letters
Scope and content
Correspondence between Hamilton and AF Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover, mainly comprising Gallipoli Day greetings, and including report from Keyes to the Admiralty, 27 Aug 1925, on his visit to war graves on Gallipoli; letter from Keyes, 14 Nov 1925, criticising the dual control of the Fleet Air Arm of the RAF; letter from Keyes, 4 Feb 1928, on his disagreements with AF Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Bt, regarding resumption of a naval offensive during the Dardanelles Campaign, 1915; letter from Hamilton, 26 Oct 1934, on his meetings with members of the Cabinet upon his recall from command of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Oct 1915. 1 file, 124 letters