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Text of speech by Hamilton at a grand British Legion rally, Woking, Surrey, on the fate suffered by British veterans of the Napeolonic and Crimean Wars. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at a special conference of the Metropolitan Area British Legion, London, relating to the proposals of the Legion National Executive Council to vest future relief work with the United Services Fund. 6pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at dinner of the 52 (Lowland) Div, Glasgow, on the strategic mistakes of the Allied High Command in not supporting the Dardanelles Campaign, the failure of which had adversely affected British prestige in Egypt and India. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the dinner of the Glasgow and Lanarkshire Association of London, proposing Glasgow as the second city of the British Empire. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the dinner of Harrow and Roxeth British Legion, Harrow-on-the-Hill, London, on the fate of ex-servicemen as revealed in their letters to him. 6pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at a dinner of the Anglo-German Association, 1 Hyde Park Gardens, London, on the aims of the newly formed Association, and welcoming German Gen Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck to 1 Hyde Park Gardens, London. 1p

Text of speech by Hamilton at the dinner of the Anglo-German Association, Claridge's Hotel, London, to Dr Cuno, and referring to the failures of the Locarno Conference, 1925, and the Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928, to establish real peace. 6pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the Gordon Highlanders Old Comrades dinner, in praise of the regiment. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the dinner of the Honourable Artillery Company, on the inadequacies of the British armed services to meet the changed conditions of the post war world, and the desirability of further mechanisation. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to the dinner of the London Morayshire Club, comparing the British armed forces of 1926 with those of 1914, and advocating the appointment of a single Chief of the Defence Staff over the Chiefs of Staffs of the Royal Navy, Army, and RAF. 8pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the dinner of the Royal Naval Division Officers' Association, on the inadequacies of the armed services to meet the changed conditions of the post war world. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at Royal Naval Division (RND) Officers' Association, dinner. Café Royal, London, on the French retreat when fighting alongside the RND during the Third Battle of Krithia, Gallipoli, 4 Jun 1915. 1p

Text of speech by Hamilton at the dinner of the Royal Naval Division Officers' Association, London, on the vulnerability of Singapore to invasion, and advocating increased military and air defences there. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the dinner of the Twenty Ninth Division Association, Café Royal, London (published in the Morning Post, 26 Apr 1927), on the First and Second Battles of Krithia, Gallipoli, 29 Apr 1915-8 May 1915. 8pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to the dinner of the Twenty Ninth Division Association, Café Royal, London, on the uniqueness of the landings on Gallipoli of 25 Apr 1915 in contrast to his other military campaigns; his hope that the all evidence given to the Dardanelles Commission would be published; how All quiet on the Western Front [Im Westen nichts Neues] by Erich Maria Remarque (Putnam, London, 1929) would ensure the experiences of the Western Front during World War One would not be repeated. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at a farewell to ex-servicemen emigrating to farms in Canada, after training at Brandon, Suffolk. 7pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at on opening a fete at Braco Castle, Perthshire, Scotland, in aid of the Stirling Royal Infirmary. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at a concert in aid of Beauchamp Lodge Emergency Home for Children, London, including his opposition to birth control. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at a general meeting of the Metropolitan Area British Legion, London, to elect a president, recommending the construction of the Forth-Clyde Canal building and extending relations towards German ex-service-men. 7pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the Ladysmith Dinner, Cavalry Club, London, on the strategies adopted by FM Sir George Stewart White and Gen Sir Henry Redvers Buller during the Second Boer War. 4pp