Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 16/225
Title
Text of speech given by Hamilton at the annual dinner of 9 Battalion The London Regiment, 1927
Date(s)
- 1927 Jun 29 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
5pp
Scope and content
Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of 9 (County of London) Bn, The London Regiment (Queen Victoria's), on the argument of compulsory versus voluntary principles of recruitment prior to World War One; the failure to send out Territorial Force units as complete divisions to France in 1914. 5pp