Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 16/438
Title
Text of a speech given by Hamilton at the annual dinner of the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars, 1933
Date(s)
- 1933 Nov 18 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
5pp
Scope and content
Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars, on his reminiscences on the Hussars prior to World War One; on his dismissal of Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, war correspondent, from the Gallipoli peninsula, and Hamilton's attempts to invite Harry Lawson Webster Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham, then Chairman of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, to come to Gallipoli. 5pp