Item HAMILTON, ISM 7/10/11 - Correspondence between Brigadier General Sir Hugh Simpson-Baikie and Major General Granville Egerton, 1920-1921, about a disputed fact in Hamilton's Gallipoli diary

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HAMILTON, ISM 7/10/11

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Correspondence between Brigadier General Sir Hugh Simpson-Baikie and Major General Granville Egerton, 1920-1921, about a disputed fact in Hamilton's Gallipoli diary

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  • 1955 (Creation)
  • 1920 May 31 - 1921 May 30 (Creation)

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1 file, 14 letters

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Correspondence between Brig Gen Sir Hugh Archie Dundas Simpson Baikie and Maj Gen Granville George Algernon Egerton, former General Officer Commanding 52 (Lowland) Div at Gallipoli, and between Simpson Baikie and Hamilton, regarding Egerton's contentions that he 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 on artillery', an appendix in Hamilton's Gallipoli diary (Edward Arnold, London, 1920). With copy letter from Gen Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien to Simpson Baikie, 9 Jun 1920, with his compliments on Hamilton's Gallipoli diary; correspondence between Mary Forbes Shield and Morley Kennerley, of Faber and Faber Ltd, publishers, 24 Nov 1955-16 Dec 1955, relating to the above correspondence. 1 file, 14 letters

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