Item HAMILTON, ISM 20/3/14 - Scrapbook of press cuttings, Oct-Nov 1917, on topics including the Russian revolution

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper articles by William le Queux on Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin, Russian mystic, in the Illustrated Sunday Herald; newspaper cuttings on the Bolshevik overthrow of the provisional government in Russia; on the Austro-German offensive on the Isonzo Front, Italy, the battle of Caporetto and the retreat of Italian Gen Luigi Cadorna behind the River Tagliamento. With printed farewell orders of Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, Commanding-in-Chief, Aldershot Command, 29 Sep 1917; letter to Hamilton from Mrs M Wilson, 30 Sep 1917, enclosing a printed poem, 'The landing on Gallipoli Peninsula by the 29th division' by her late son Pte H Wilson, 1 Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers, 29 Div, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; three photographs of officers, pipe band and battalion of Gordon Highlanders, [France, 1918]. 1 vol, 3 photographs