Item HAMILTON, ISM 17/23 - Scrapbook of press cuttings, 1911-1912, on Hamilton's visits to South Africa and East Asia

Scrapbook of mostly South African and Chinese newspaper cuttings on Hamilton's visits to South Africa and East Asia as Inspector General of Overseas Forces, mainly relating to his reviews of parades and military manoeuvres, including his inspections of volunteer forces and cadets at Durban, the Wiltshire Regiment at Fort Napier, the garrison at Tempe cantonment, Blomfontein, and the Transvaal Volunteers and cadets, Johannesburg, the garrison at Potchefstroom, Transvaal, and volunteers and cadets in Bulawayo and Salisbury, Rhodesia, Aug-Sep 1911; his inspection of 1 Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at Tientsin, China, army exercises at Huang Tsun, China, involving the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) and 124th Duchess of Connaught's Own Baluchistan Infantry, volunteer forces at Hankow, China, the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps, the Singapore Volunteer Corps and the Malay States Volunteer Regiment at Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, Oct-Nov 1912. With article, 'General Sir Ian Hamilton-views on matters in the Near and Far East', including his poem, 'The temple of heaven', The Hong Kong Telegraph (13 Nov 1912). 1 vol