Item HAMILTON, ISM 17/13 - Scrapbook relating to Hamilton's tour of Japan and Manchuria, 1904-1905

Scrapbook relating to Hamilton's tour of Japan and Manchuria as Indian military attaché to the Japanese Army, including photographs of Hamilton with Lt Gen Sir William Gustavus Nicholson, Capt James Bruce Jardine, Capt Berkeley Vincent and Lt Col Charles Vernon Hume, British military attachés, Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald, British ambassador to Japan, Japanese officers, including Marshal Iwao Oyama, Chief of the General Staff, Lt Col Satow, Gen Umezawa and Prince Kuni, ADC to Japanese Gen Takemoti Kuroki; newspaper cuttings, including on the funeral in Tokyo, Japan, at which Hamilton and MacDonald were present, of Japanese Cdr Takeo Hirose, killed in a Russian attack on Port Arthur, Manchuria, 25 May 1904; on Hamilton's accident at Chemulpo, Manchuria, where he fell between the Japanese transport ship SUNINOYA MARU and the ship's launch, and was saved from drowning by Satow, 19 May 1904; on Hamilton's appointment to General Officer Commanding Southern Command, British Army, The Times (17 Dec 1904); 'A danger to the empire-the condition of our army', three articles by Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Daily Mail (16, 17 and 19 Dec 1904 on Hamilton's criticism of the British Army following his observation of the Japanese Army. 1 vol