Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 19/15
Title
Bookplate printing blocks, 1915-1934, with illustrations of Hamilton, and of the Hamilton's cottage in Buckinghamshire
Date(s)
- 1915 - 1934 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
5 blocks
Scope and content
Five bookplate printing blocks, comprising Hamilton as General Officer Commanding, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, talking to ANZAC troops, Gallipoli, 1915; design for books of Jean Hamilton (their cottage at Chesham, Bucks, 1912); Hamilton as Colonel of the Gordon Highlanders, in full dress uniform, and saluting in service uniform, 1920s; cartoon by D R Leslie, of Hamilton carrying the drums of 2 Bn Gordon Highlanders, which were left in Belgium and brought to Germany during World War One and presented to to Hamilton by German President FM Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, in Berlin, Germany, 1934. 5 blocks