Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 16/195
Title
Text of speech given by Hamilton at a prize-giving for 10 Battalion the Manchester Regiment, Oldham, Lancashire, 1926
Date(s)
- 1926 Dec 18 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
5pp
Scope and content
Text of speech by Hamilton at the distribution of shooting prizes to 10 Bn The Manchester Regiment, Drill Hall, Oldham, Lancashire, on his reminiscences of the regiment during the Second Boer War, 1899-1902, and his tribute to FM Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, for Roberts' elevation of British musketry skills. 5pp