Item HAMILTON, ISM 7/1/6 - Copy letters by Hamilton as GOC Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Mar-Nov 1915, reporting on the progress of the Dardanelles campaign

Typed copies of Hamilton's weekly letters, as General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, reporting progress of the Dardanelles Campaign, including the Allied naval bombardment of the Straits forts, 18 Mar; Hamilton's account of the first landings at V Beach, W Beach and ANZAC, 30 Apr; his anxieties over the leadership and morale of the French Corps Expéditionnaire d'Orient, 5 May; his shortage of artillery ammunition, and his requesting Kitchener to inspect operations at Gallipoli in person, 21 May; his account of the Suvla Bay landings, 11 Aug; his concerns over the transfer of troops from Gallipoli to Salonika, 29 Sep; his request to be re-employed following his recall to London, 13 Nov. 1 file, 38 letters