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Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President of the Metropolitan Area; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President of the Metropolitan Area, and at the Eleventh Annual Congress of FIDAC (Fédération Interalliée des Anciens Combatants) in the USA, Sep 1930; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton. With 'It is the women who make wars', article on Hamilton's introduction to Thoughts of a soldier (English translation, Ernest Benn, London, 1930) by German Gen Hans von Seeckt, Sunday Express, 3 Aug 1930. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President and Patron of the Metropolitan Area; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton; visit of representatives of German ex-service organisations, Jan 1936. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President of the Metropolitan Area; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton. With report and findings of the committee appointed by the Metropolitan Area Conference 'to explore all avenues for the employment of ex-servicemen', May 1929. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President of the Metropolitan Area; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton. With report of special Metropolitan Area conference on pensions administration, 29 Sep 1933. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President of the Metropolitan Area; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton. With two photographs of Hamilton during the Legion pilgrimage to the battlefields of the Western Front, Aug 1928. 1 file, 2 photographs

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as Patron of the Metropolitan Area; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President of the Metropolitan Area; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President of the Metropolitan Area; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton. With cuttings from The Edinburgh Evening News, The Scotsman and The Evening Despatch, 11 May 1929, on Hamilton's speech to a Legion demonstration in Edinburgh, Scotland, protesting against the retention of the seven years' limit in the payment of war pensions. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President of the Metropolitan Area, and financial irregularities in the Metropolitan Area Council; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton. With article 'What is wrong with the British Legion?', on allegations of its financial mismanagement, Sunday Express, 5 Jan 1930. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as Patron of the Metropolitan Area; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton; visit of Hamilton and Legion delegates to Germany, Aug 1938. With report of the Legion Special Committee established to investigate the problem of prematurely aged ex-servicemen, Dec 1937. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President of the Metropolitan Area, and including correspondence regarding the suspension of the Legion Metropolitan Area Council by the National Executive Council. With British Legion report 'Case for an enquiry into the final award regulations of the Ministry of Pensions as affecting the less seriously disabled men', 6 Nov 1924. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President of the Metropolitan Area; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton; Hamilton's possible succession to the Presidency of the Legion following the resignation of AF John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe. With Hamilton's poem 'Song of the DCM', British Legion Journal, Mar 1932. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's attendance at Legion functions as President of the Metropolitan Area; administration by the Legion of petitions of financial hardship from ex-servicemen addressed to Hamilton. With address on unemployment given by Arthur H Francks, Legion National Executive Council, to the Conference of the Metropolitan Area, 8 Dec 1928; 'Today's ceremony at the Cenotaph-the British Legion's memorial service', article by Hamilton, The Radio Times, 3 Jun 1927. 1 file

Correspondence relating to the British Legion, mainly in regard to Hamilton's business as Patron of the Metropolitan Area. With bulletins of the Fleet Street British Legion, London, Jul 1942-Oct 1945; national and Metropolitan Area annual reports and accounts, 1942-1943, and interim reports on housing, education and home agricultural settlement, Dec 1943; minutes of the annual meeting of the Council of the Officers' Association, 2 Feb 1944; British Legion Journal, Jun 1944; photograph of Hamilton during the Legion pilgrimage to Beaumont Hamel, France, Aug 1928. 1 file, 1 photograph

Correspondence relating to the South African War Veterans' Association, including correspondence with FM Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, Association President; invitations to Association functions; correspondence of Hamilton as subsequent Association President; appeals to trusts for Association welfare funds for veterans of the Second Boer War. 1 file

Correspondence between Hamilton and AF Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover, mainly comprising Gallipoli Day greetings, and including report from Keyes to the Admiralty, 27 Aug 1925, on his visit to war graves on Gallipoli; letter from Keyes, 14 Nov 1925, criticising the dual control of the Fleet Air Arm of the RAF; letter from Keyes, 4 Feb 1928, on his disagreements with AF Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Bt, regarding resumption of a naval offensive during the Dardanelles Campaign, 1915; letter from Hamilton, 26 Oct 1934, on his meetings with members of the Cabinet upon his recall from command of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Oct 1915. 1 file, 124 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and AF Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss of Wemyss, including letter from Wemyss, 15 Sep [1923], requesting the use of Hamilton's despatch of 11 Dec 1915, reporting operations at Gallipoli, Jul-Oct 1915 for Wemyss' The navy in the Dardanelles Campaign (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1924). 1 file, 3 letters

Correspondence between Hamilton and AF Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Bt, mainly regarding commemorations of the Gallipoli landings of 25 Apr 1915, and including letter from Hamilton, 26 Jan 1926, on recent evidence from Lt Col Betham Wilkins Shuttleworth, late Bde Maj of 32 Bde, 11 (Northern) Div, at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, relating to the refusal of Maj Gen Frederick Hammersley to allow 32 Bde to advance on Anafarta Sagir on 8 Aug 1915. 1 file, 26 letters