- HAMILTON, ISM 16/34
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- 1921 Nov 16
Text of speech by Hamilton at Bromley fete, London, for Lord Haig's fund for ex-servicemen. Incomplete. 2pp
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Text of speech by Hamilton at Bromley fete, London, for Lord Haig's fund for ex-servicemen. Incomplete. 2pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at an inspection of Edinburgh Boys Brigade, 1928
Text of speech by Hamilton at his inspection of the Edinburgh Boys Brigade. 3pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at an Old Wellingtonian dinner, 1920
Text of speech by Hamilton at Old Wellingtonian dinner, paying tribute to the Royal Navy during the Dardanelles Campaign, and to men of Wellington College killed in World War One. 3pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at an Oxford Union debate, 1928, on General James Wolfe
Hamilton's speech on Maj Gen James Wolfe, in favour of the motion 'That this house would rather have taken Quebec than written Gray's elegy', in the Eights Week Debate, Oxford Union Society. 8pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Auchterarder Flower Show, Perthshire, 1928, about Lord Haldane
Text of speech by Hamilton to the Auchterarder flower show, Perthshire, Scotland, paying tribute to Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan. 3pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Barrow-on-Furness British Legion, Lancashire, 1924
Text of speech by Hamilton to the British Legion, Tivoli Theatre, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, on the influence of the Legion in preventing the horrors of future wars. 5pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Birmingham Toc H, Warwickshire, 1923
Text of speech by Hamilton to Birmingham Toc H, Warwickshire, on Hamilton's lack of political leanings; the dangers of the lack of independence in the British press; the aims of his book The friends of England, lectures to members of the British Legion (G Allen Unwin, London, 1923). 7pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Blackpool Tower Circus, Lancashire, 1925
Text of speech by Hamilton at boxing tournament, Tower Circus, Blackpool, Lancashire, commending the policy of the British Legion in lending money to ex-servicemen to help themselves out of unemployment. 4pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Brentford British Legion, Middlesex, 1928
Text of speech by Hamilton at Brentford British Legion, Middlesex, on the branch exemplifying co-operation between former ex-servicemen's organisations. 6pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Brighouse British Legion, Yorkshire, 1923
Text of speech by Hamilton for the presentation of banners to British Legion branches of the West Riding at Brighouse, Yorkshire, on the failure of the Treaty of Versailles to secure a just victory; the need for the British Government to undertake works of public utility to combat unemployment. Two versions, 5pp, 3pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Cheltenham war memorial, Gloucestershire, 1922
Text of speech by Hamilton at the Cheltenham war memorial, Gloucestershire, on the importance of collective acts of remembrance. 2pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Coventry hospital fete, Warwickshire, 1922
Text of speech by Hamilton at the Coventry hospital fete, Warwickshire, on the merits of voluntary service as exemplified by the artillery of 48 (South Midland) Div. 4pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Crompton war memorial, Lancashire, 1923
Text of speech by Hamilton at the Crompton war memorial, Lancashire, praising the service of the Manchester Regiment during the Second Boer War and World War One. 3pp
Text of speech by Hamilton at the Dormansland Memorial Club, Surrey, on the importance of the British Legion avoiding political favouritism. 3pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Dundee war memorial, Forfar, 1925
Text of speech by Hamilton at Dundee war memorial, Forfar, Scotland, on the danger of pacts between groups of nations threatening another war; the present condition of ex-servicemen; the story of the drunken Maori Chief who wanted a medal as an enemy of the British Empire. 5pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at East Ham United Services Club, London, 1922
Text of speech by Hamilton at East Ham United Services Club, London, on the importance of independent ex-service associations becoming affiliated to the British Legion. 5pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Eccles British Legion Club, Lancashire, 1922
Text of speech by Hamilton at the British Legion Club, Eccles, Lancashire, recommending that German ex-service organisations be included in FIDAC (Fédération Interalliée des Anciens Combatants). 4pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Fartown and Bickley war memorial, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, 1921
Text of speech by Hamilton at the Fartown and Bickley war memorial, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, calling for generosity to former enemies as displayed by FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, towards the Boers. 3pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Finchley Cottage Hospital, London, 1922
Text of speech by Hamilton at the Finchley Cottage Hospital, London, on wartime grief, and retention of the British fighting spirit despite the war. 3pp
Text of speech given by Hamilton at Glasgow Academy war memorial, 1921
Text of speech by Hamilton at the Glasgow Academy war memorial, Glasgow, Scotland, in tribute to the spirit of self-sacrifice of those commemorated. 3pp