Item HAMILTON, ISM 17/16 - Scrapbook of press cuttings, 1906-1908, on Hamilton's speeches and publications

Scrapbook, including newspaper cuttings on Hamilton's use of Salisbury Plain for training exercises, including reprint of 'Remarks by Lieut-General Sir Ian Hamilton, Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, on the training of the troops during 1906', Journal of the Royal United Services Institution, Dec 1906, criticizing British cavalry techniques, the failure of artillery to coordinate with infantry, and the lack of more extensive use of machine guns; on his appeal for further recruitment into the Territorial Artillery in Southern Command, The Times (17 Apr 1908); on his speeches at meetings at Tidworth, Birmingham, Bodmin, Cornwall, Ryde, Isle of Wight and in Devon supporting the scheme of Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, Secretary of State for War, for the creation of the Territorial Army, Jun-Nov 1908, with a printed copy of his speech supporting Haldane's proposed University Officer Training Corps, given at Oxford University, 14 May 1908; newspaper and magazine reviews of Hamilton's A staff officer's scrap book during the Russo-Japanese war (Edward Arnold, London, 1905). With telegram, 6 Jan 1908, from FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford, and Brig Gen Henry Seymour Rawlinson, wishing Hamilton more successes like the battle of Wagon Hill [1900]. 1 vol