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Volume containing confidential reports on 123 officers, including Maj Gen Hon Julian Hedworth George Byng, Maj Gen Sir John Grenfell Maxwell and Maj Gen Thomas Perrott, serving at Gibraltar and Egypt under Hamilton, General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Command, comprising remarks of immediate commanding officer, Maxwell, Commander-in-Chief, Egypt, Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar, and Hamilton (indexed). 1 vol

Messages of congratulation received by Hamilton from relatives, friends, acquaintances and associations on his 90th birthday. 1 file

Messages of congratulation received by Hamilton from relatives, friends, acquaintances and associations on his 91st birthday. 1 file

Messages of congratulation received by Hamilton from relatives, friends, acquaintances and associations on his 92nd birthday. 1 file

Messages of congratulation received by Hamilton from relatives, friends, acquaintances and associations on his 93rd birthday. 1 file

Messages of congratulation received by Hamilton from relatives, friends, acquaintances and associations on his 94th birthday. With photograph of Hamilton as General Officer Commanding Southern Command, reviewing 7 Bn Manchester Regt on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, 31 May 1909. 1 file, 1 photograph

Photocopies of articles by Raymond Gram Swing from The Chicago Daily News, comprising 'Witness describes Dardanelles fight seen from tower', 18 Mar 1915, regarding the Allied naval bombardment of Turkish forts on 5 Mar 1915; 'Sees BOUVET struck; three minutes, it's gone', 23 Mar 1915, regarding the Allied naval offensive through the Straits of 18 Mar 1915. With associated correspondence between Mary Forbes Shield and The Chicago Daily News, 22 Oct 1965-26 Jan 1966, regarding Shield's request for photocopies of Swing's articles. 1 file

Copy of typescript private diaries of Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, mainly comprising daily entries describing social engagements, personal opinions of friends, relations and acquaintances, literary criticism, photographs and references to her courtship and marriage to Hamilton in India, 1886-1887; reforms at the War Office, 1903-1904; the publication of Hamilton's A Staff Officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese War (Edward Arnold, London, 2 vols, 1905 & 1907); life at Tidworth House, Andover, Hampshire, during Hamilton's service as General Officer Commanding Southern Command, 1905-908. Includes related social correspondence with Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP; Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton; Rt Hon John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn; FM Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria; Walter Richard Sickert. (Does not include volume for the period Oct 1901-Aug 1903). See also Hamilton 20/1/9

Typescript of anonymous article, 'The first heroic defence by the Turks at Sed-ul-Bahr, 12-13 Apr 1915', translated from the Turkish Military Review. 16pp

Copy correspondence relating to the supersession of Brig Gen William Henry Sitwell as General Officer Commanding 34 Bde for failures associated with the attack on Yilghin Burnu (Chocolate Hill), Suvla on 7 Aug 1915, including signals between Maj Gen Frederick Hammersley, General Officer Commanding 11 (Northern) Div and HQ 9 Corps regarding Hammersley's request to replace Sitwell, 18 Aug 1915; letter from Sitwell to Hammersley with Sitwell's account of his operations 6-18 Aug 1915. 12pp

Typed extract from an interview with German Gen Otto Victor Carl Liman von Sanders in The Daily Telegraph, comparing casualties suffered by the British and Turkish in Gallipoli. 1p

Typescript copy of section of Hamilton's personal diary of the Gallipoli Campaign for 5 May1915-30 Jul 1915, with minor variations from the entries subsequently published in his Gallipoli diary, 2 vols (Edward Arnold, London, 1920). 232pp

Typed extract of letter from Capt C T Atkinson, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence, noting the opposition of General HQ, Western Front, to operations in Eastern theatres. 1p

Typed extracts from four letters to Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), from Brevet Lt Col Oswald Arthur Gerald Fitzgerald, Personal Military Secretary to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, illustrating Kitchener's confidence in Hamilton's leadership of the MEF. 2pp

Typescript extracts from the papers of Capt Guy Payan Dawnay, General Staff, General Headquarters, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, including letters to his wife regarding progress of the Dardanelles Campaign, Hamilton's recall and the arrival of Gen Sir Charles Carmichael Monro; Dawnay's memorandum for the Imperial General Staff on the strength of Turkish forces and prospects of a renewed offensive at Suvla and ANZAC, Sep 1915; his diary while in London, 10 Sep-3 Oct 1915, including his meetings with FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rt Hon Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister, Lt Gen Sir James Wolfe Murray, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Maj Gen Charles Edward Callwell, Director of Military Operations, Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law MP. 1 file (Original papers are held by the Imperial War Museum)

Photocopy of first page of typescript 'Instructions for General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Expeditionary Force', produced by FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, and outlining the strategic objectives of the Dardanelles Campaign, with manuscript amendments by Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF). 1p (Original is in The National Archives). With associated correspondence between Mary Forbes Shield and Daphne H Gifford, Public Record Office, 11-12 Mar 1966.

Typed copy of later version of 'Instructions for General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Expeditionary Force', produced by FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, and outlining the strategic objectives of the Dardanelles Campaign, with manuscript amendments by Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. 4pp

Photocopy of typescript letter by Capt William Maxwell, Military Intelligence 5 (MI5), War Office, to (Edward) Grimwood Mears, Secretary to the Dardanelles Commission, informing him of the alleged inexperience of British intelligence officers and interference in Maxwell's censorship of press correspondents during the Dardanelles Campaign. 2pp (Original in the Public Record Office)

Typescript copy of a letter from an anonymous officer, with recommendations to be adopted in British musketry practice in the light of the experiences of the Second Boer War, including long range sniping, the importance of firing at unseen or hidden targets, and the necessity of rapidity and accuracy of fire at extreme short ranges. 3pp

Typed copy of letter [to Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Bt] from Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Official Historian of the Australian Imperial Force, regarding Bean's recent visit to Gallipoli, including description of desecration of Allied graves, and work of Imperial War Graves Commission in identifying graves; structures of Turkish trenches; Turkish military opinion on the success of the ANZAC action at Lone Pine, 6 Aug 1915, and deception of the Allied evacuation. 5pp With memorandum by Bean, comprising answers by the Turkish General Staff to his questions relating to their expectations of initial Allied landing sites on Gallipoli; Turkish units involved in opposing the landings of 25 Apr 1915, the Turkish offensive of 19 May 1915 at Anzac, and during operations at Sari Bair and Suvla Bay, Aug 1915; Turkish expectations of an Allied evacuation; German units attached to the Turkish forces. 11pp (Three copies)