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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

Correspondence between Hamilton and Brig Gen John Arthur Barlow, regarding Barlow's application to the War Office for a Meritorious Service Reward. With accompanying schedule by Barlow, showing comparative war, regimental and staff services of himself, Col Claude Kennedy and Brig Gen Albert Edward Ommanney. 1 file, 2 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Brig Gen John Hartman Morgan, including correspondence relating to Morgan's work as General Officer Commanding Effectives Sub-Commission, Inter-Allied Military Commission of Control in Germany, 1920-1923. With Morgan's pamphlet The army and the civil power (BAOR, 1919). 1 file, 104 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Brig Gen Richard Joshua Cooper, former General Officer Commanding 29 Bde on Gallipoli, relating to recommendations of officers of 29 Bde for rewards and decorations. 1 file, 13 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Brig Gen Robert Pacy Maxwell, former General Officer Commanding 33 Bde, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, mainly relating to Hamilton's notification that Maxwell had been placed on the list of witnesses before the Dardanelles Commission. 1 file, 3 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Brig Gen Samuel Henry Winter, former Deputy Quarter Master General, General Headquarters, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), mainly relating to information required for Hamilton's evidence to the Dardanelles Commission regarding composition of Quarter Master General and Administrative Staffs of the MEF; the work of Maj Gen Alexander Wallace, Inspector General of Communications, MEF, and Brig Gen Alain Chartier de Lotbinière Joly de Lotbinière, Director of Works, MEF; relations between Administrative, Corps and General Staffs; arrangements for supply of water at the Suvla Bay landings, Gallipoli, 6 Aug 1915. 1 file, 26 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Brig Gen Sir James Edward Edmonds, Historical Section (Military Branch), Committee of Imperial Defence, including letter from Edmonds, 25 Mar 1922, on the progress of the official history of the Gallipoli Campaign. 1 file, 12 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Brig Gen William Robarts Napier Madocks, mainly relating to family and personal news, and including letters from Madocks on his progress as Staff Officer with 20 (Light) Div and 35 Div on the Western Front, World War One; letter from Madocks, 9 May 1919, as Assistant Adjutant General to Headquarters number 5 area, British Troops in France, at Lille. 1 file, 42 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Col Herman Le Roy-Lewis, Military Attaché, British Embassy, Paris, France, including Hamilton's letter praising the cooperation he received from the French Generals in the Dardanelles, 20 Jul 1915; letter from Lewis relaying the attitudes of the French Government and public towards the Gallipoli Campaign, 3 Aug 1915. 1 file, 3 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and his brother Vereker Monteith Hamilton, mainly relating to family matters and financial affairs in regard to the West Haputale and Yellentenne Estates Company Ltd, and including correspondence in regard to Vereker's Things that happened (Edward Arnold, London, 1925). 1 file, 352 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and his brother-in-law James Finlay Muir, and Muir's wife, Charlotte Escudier ('Chattie') Muir, mainly relating to family and financial matters. 1 file, 92 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and his brother-in-law Sir (Alexander) Kay Muir, 2nd Bt, and Muir's wife, Nadédja Muir, Lady Muir, mainly relating to family and financial matters. 1 file, 210 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Capt Albert Jacka, 14 (Victoria) Bn Australian Imperial Force, including copy of Jacka's statement for the Dardanelles Commission relating to arrangements for the evacuation and care of casualties following the landings at Anzac, Gallipoli, 25 Apr 1915. 1 file, 3 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, mainly comprising mutual appreciations of each other's publications, particularly Hamilton's article on 'The art of war since 1910', for the Encyclopedia Britannica. With typescript copy of Liddell Hart's memorandum of 1924, 'New methods and developments of method in the post war doctrine of the army' intended for presentation to Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan, Chairman of the Committee of Imperial Defence. 1 file, 87 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, mainly comprising mutual appreciations of each other's publications, and including Hamilton's account, 19 May 1933, of the British Council of War held at 10 Downing Street, London on 5 Aug 1914; typescript review by Liddell Hart of High command in the world war (Scribner's, London, 1934) by Capt William Dilworth Puleston US Navy; letter from Liddell Hart on his recent nervous exhaustion, 25 Oct 1939. With 'We have wasted brains', article by Liddell Hart, Sunday Pictorial, 11 Aug 1940. 1 file, 104 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Capt Christopher Thomas Atkinson, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence, mainly relating to the evidence of war diaries of units of 9 Corps at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, Aug 1915, for Hamilton's statements to the Dardanelles Commission. 1 file, 27 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Capt Ernest Kindersley Loring RN, relating to information required for Hamilton's evidence to the Dardanelles Commission regarding arrangements for the transport of water on motor lighters for operations at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on 6-7 Aug 1915. 1 file, 5 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Capt Francis Fetherstonehaugh Loyd, late adjutant 9 Bn The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt), regarding recognition for the battalion for its advance from Suvla Bay toward Ismail Oglu Tepe and its countering of a Turkish offensive on 9 Aug 1915. 1 file, 10 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Capt Harry Rowlandson Godfrey RN, formerly commanding RN destroyer HMS BEAGLE, including copy letter from Godfrey to Paymaster Lt Cdr Basil Frederick Hood, 26 Mar [1917], relating to the landing of water supplies at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on 6-7 Aug 1915. 1 file, 5 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and Capt James Robert White (known as Jack White), relating to White's requests to publicise White's views, namely that the Irish Nationalist Volunteers should have the full support of the British Government, and should be officered by Irishmen. With letter from Hamilton to J Alfred Spender, editor of the Westminster Gazette, proposing that the Volunteers be equipped and instructed by the British Government, 19 Sep 1914. 1 file, 11 letters