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Date(s)
- 1920 May 15 - 1921 Jan 2 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 vol
Scope and content
Scrapbook of newspaper and journal cuttings, including reviews of Hamilton's Gallipoli Diary (Edward Arnold, London, 1920); on the response of the Australian war correspondent Keith Arthur Murdoch to the publication of Gallipoli Diary, May 1920; letter from Lt Gen Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to The Morning Post (27 May 1920) responding to Hamilton's claim in Gallipoli Diary that Maxwell and FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, refused to send Hamilton a brigade of Gurkhas from Egypt to the Dardanelles, with Hamilton's reply, The Morning Post (28 May 1920); letters to The Times from 'An Australian soldier' (18 Jun 1920) justifying the actions of Murdoch in discrediting Hamilton's command of the Dardanelles campaign, with Hamilton's reply (19 Jun 1920); review of Fünf Jahre Türkei by German Gen Otto Victor Carl Liman von Sanders (Scherl, Berlin, 1920), The Times Literary Supplement, 22 Jul 1920; letter from Hamilton to the Westminster Gazette (10 Aug 1920) arguing that the Treaty of Versailles would cause German resentment and could not safeguard countries established under its terms; 'Gallipoli', poem by David Mckee Wright, The Bulletin (2 Sep 1920); on the presentation by Hamilton of original drafts of his dispatches from the Dardanelles to the Mitchell Library, Sydney, Australia, and the Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand; 'The hero in the gutter-how we can get him out of it', article by Hamilton on unemployed ex-servicemen, The Daily Graphic (24 Dec 1920). 1 vol