Item HAMILTON, ISM 20/3/7 - Scrapbook of press cuttings, 1916, on topics including the Gallipoli campaign and the death of FM Lord Kitchener

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cuttings on the presentation of the Grande Croix de la Légion d'Honneur to Hamilton, 30 Apr; on the death of FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, 5 Jun; on the unveiling of a memorial statue in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, of FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford, 21 Aug; reviews of The truth about the Dardanelles by Sydney A Moseley (Cassell and Co, London, 1916), and Gallipoli by John Edward Masefield (W Heinemann, London, 1916); on Zeppelin raids over the Midlands and south east of England. With letter to Lady Hamilton, from Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood, on the death of Kitchener, 24 Jun 1916; typed extract of letter from Sir George (Christopher Molesworth) Birdwood to his nephew Gen William Birdwood, on his pride at Hamilton's praise for William's exploits in the Dardanelles; letter to Lady Hamilton, with photograph, from 2nd Lt George Armitage, 6 Bn Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, BEF, with his account of the Battle of the Somme, 22 Aug. 1 vol, 1 photograph