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Typed copy of statement and commentary by Hamilton upon the evidence given to the Dardanelles Commission by Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, war correspondent on Gallipoli, regarding the conduct of operations during the campaign. Excludes associated correspondence relating to the refusal of Lt Gen Sir Bryan Thomas Mahon to serve under Maj Gen Henry de Beauvoir de Lisle. Three identical copies. 43pp

Texts of four speeches given by Cooper in his role as Chairman of Governors at the Cranbrook School, Kent. 15pp.

Speech on Festival of Britain by Ismay at industries exhibition Bristol, two speeches, one of which includes account of Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's 1941 visit to Bristol. Typescript 4 pp

Speeches by Ismay on school prize days at Felsted, Epsom, Surrey and Bromsgove, Worcestershire. Typescript 14 pp

The University College London Foundation Oration entitled, 'We learn from history that we do not learn from history'. Manuscript, typescript, booklet form, and programme

Text of speech given at Fellowship Club Lunch on 1 Jun, referring to early career and service in Sierra Leone, West Indies and Northern Nigeria. 6pp

Text of speech given at the Fellowship Club in Walton on 7 Dec, referring to cannibalism in West Africa, and the sect named the 'Tongo Players' in particular. 5pp

Text of speech given on 27 May as Representative Colonel Commandant at the passing out parade of the 140th Officer Training Corps Unit, Royal Engineers at Bowbridge Camp, Newark referring to the quality of courage and the respected reputation of the Royal Engineers. 1p

Text of speech by Hamilton at the unveiling of the Cheam School war memorial, on the failure of the Treaty of Versailles to end World War One. Speech not given. 2pp

Text of speech to the press on nuclear role of Bomber Command (possibly a later version of 1/1/28).

Text of Liddell Hart's speech to the Oxford Union entitled, 'Free v compulsory service', an amended version of the speech Liddell Hart gave to the Cambridge Union, with press cuttings and related correspondence

Text of speech entitled 'Nordkommandeoen-Oppgaver og problemer'. In Norwegian, typescript, 14pp

Text of speech: 'Nuclear deterrence and NATO strategy' Colin Humphrey, Deputy Under Secretary for Air given at a symposium for retired air officers RAF Bentley Priory.

Address at the opening ceremony of the Tercentenary celebrations at the Royal Albert Hall. 1 item

Text of speech given at dinner of Byfleet Company, Home Guard on 15 Jun including a tribute to Col Marshall. 1p

Text of speech given at stand-down parade on 3 Dec of Byfleet Company, Home Guard. 1p

Text of speech by Ismay for the House of Lords, 6 Jul 1949 on the issue of the role played by FM Sir Archibald Percival Wavell 1st Earl Wavell and V Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma in securing pensions for men previously employed in the Indian services. Typescript, 6pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to the Wood Green and Southgate British Legion, London, on the economic rise of the USA and decline of Great Britain; his opposition to the 'dole' as sapping the will of the unemployed to work. 7pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to war orphans, Drill Hall, Battersea, London, reminding them of their duties as children of heroes. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to the Royal Marines Old Comrades Association, London, on the importance of closer cooperation between the Royal Navy and the Army; the responsibility of Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe of St Peter, for pressing the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula Dardanelles. 3pp