Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 20/3/16
Title
Scrapbook of press cuttings, Jan-Mar 1918, on topics including the appointment of a new CIGS and operations on the Western Front
Date(s)
- 1918 Jan 19 - 1918 Mar 28 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 vol
Scope and content
Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cuttings on the trial for treason, Paris, France, of Paul-Marie Bolo, known as Bolo Pasha, for receiving German funds to disseminate pro-German propaganda in the French press, 4-14 Feb; replacement of Gen Sir William Robert Robertson by Gen Sir Henry Hughes Wilson as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 18 Feb; on the suggestions of German culpability for the outbreak of war, made by Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky, former German ambassador to Britain, 15 Mar; on the German Spring offensive on the Western Front (Second Battle of the Somme), 22 Mar. 1 vol