Item HAMILTON, ISM 17/10 - Scrapbook of press cuttings relating to Hamilton's career, 1901-1904

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, including on Hamilton's speech at Hythe, 4 May 1901, suggesting that the cordial reception for Boer representatives in Britain would prolong the war in South Africa, and the statement made in Parliament by Rt Hon William St John Fremantle Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, following protests at Hamilton's speech; on Hamilton's appointment as Chief of Staff to Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Baron Kitchener of Khartoum, Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, 1901; on Hamilton's testimony before the Royal Commission on Physical Training, proposing a national system of youth exercise for future military purposes, The Glasgow Herald, 1902; on his visit, with FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, to German Army manoeuvres, Sep 1902; on Hamilton' s appointment to Quartermaster-General, The Times (7 Apr 1903); on the accusations made in Parliament by Duncan Vernon Pirie MP, alleging that the appointment of Hamilton to Quartermaster-General was made due to the favouritism of Roberts, The Times (17 Jul 1903), with a defence of Hamilton's appointment in the editorial of The St James's Gazette (17 Jul 1903). 1 vol