Item HAMILTON, ISM 17/32 - Scrapbook of papers and photographs, 1914-1916, relating to Hamilton's service as C-in-C, Gallipoli campaign

Scrapbook mainly relating to Hamilton's service as Commander in Chief, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, including signed typescript copy of his message to troops,'Soldiers of France and of the King' [Apr 1915] with typescript copy of letter praising his message from French Gen Albert d'Amade, General Officer Commanding French Corps Expéditionnaire d'Orient, 22 Apr 1915; telegram from Hamilton to Jean Hamilton on his recall from the Dardanelles and his replacement by Gen Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, 16 Oct 1915; papers relating to Lady Hamilton's Dardanelles Fund, including printed list of medical supplies forwarded to Dardanelles hospitals, Jun-Sep 1915 and Final report of Lady Hamilton's Dardanelles Fund, 1 Oct-31 Dec 1915, letters to Jean Hamilton with thanks for supplies from Lt Col James Kiero Watson, Commandant Advanced Base, Cape Hellas, 3 Dec 1915 (with news of a storm on 16 Nov 1915), from Donald McDonald, Field Secretary Young Men's Christian Association, Mudros West, 4 Feb 1916, and from A Edmond Weld, 54 Casualty Clearing Station, 26 Jan 1916; leaflet in French and Turkish, distributed at Suvla Bay, 19-20 Dec 1915, to troops caring for sick and wounded requesting humane treatment in the event of their capture by the Turks; typescript copy of letter to Elisabeth Moncreiffe, sister of Jean Hamilton, from T Catron, 1 ANZAC Div, ANZAC base depot, Weymouth, expressing his comrades' desire to have continued fighting under Hamilton, 21 Dec 1915; photographs, including Hamilton with his staff, Oct 1915, hospital tents [ colour photographs, 1915]; staff of No 1 Nursing Unit (Mediterranean), Hamilton reviewing French troops and 29 Div Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Alexandria, Egypt, 4-5 Apr 1915, Hamilton and Lt Col Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie [Apr 1915], Hamilton and Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, on ship's tender [1915]; newspaper cuttings, Apr 1915-May 1916, including reports on the Dardanelles Expedition by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, G Ward Price and Sydney Alexander Moseley, war correspondents; article on Jean Hamilton, with reproduction of her portrait by John Singer Sargent, from The Sketch (21 Apr 1915); 'Christmas in the Dardanelles-a description of Lady Ian Hamilton's fund', article in the Lady's Pictorial (4 Dec 1915). 1 vol, 10 photographs