Item HAMILTON, ISM 7/10/10 - Correspondence with Brigadier General Hugh Simpson-Baikie, 1919-1924, on topics including artillery in the Gallipoli campaign

Correspondence between Hamilton and Brig Gen Hugh Archie Dundas Simpson Baikie, including correspondence relating to Simpson Baikie's statement on the use of artillery during the Gallipoli Campaign for an appendix to Hamilton's Gallipoli diary (Edward Arnold, London, 1920); the contentions of Maj Gen Granville George Algernon Egerton, former General Officer Commanding 52 (Lowland) Div at Gallipoli, that Egerton was not responsible for the attack of 156 Bde, 52 Div, at Gully Ravine, Gallipoli, on 28 Jun 1915, as implied in Simpson Baikie's statement. With obituary for Simpson Baikie by 'W B R S', reprinted from the Royal Artillery Regimental News, Apr 1924. 1 file, 63 letters