Item HAMILTON, ISM 17/101 - Press cuttings, Sep-Dec 1939, on topics including Lord Gort, the Gordon Highlanders, and Hamilton's views on responsibility for the outbreak of war

Newspaper and journal cuttings, including reviews of Hamilton's When I was a boy (Faber and Faber, London, 1939); '"Tiger" Gort, VC', biographical article by Harold A Albert on John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the Sunday Sun (3 Sep); 'The "immortal essence" of the Gordons', article by 'G S F' on past campaigns of the Gordon Highlanders, Aberdeen Press and Journal (12 Oct); on Hamilton's campaign to enrol South African War veterans into a National Defence Battalion, Aberdeen Press and Journal (24 Oct); 'Roots of war-put hate-mongers in the dock', article by Hamilton accusing propagandists of causing World War Two, The Bulletin and Scots Pictorial (2 Dec). 1 file