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Wireless message from Emir Feisal to King of Arabia, Mecca. On exchange of Suliman ibn Rafada and Hamid, more suitably carried out at railway between Tabuk and Ma'an. Arabic and English. Ms, 1p

Message broadcast by radio from London by Brig Edmund Myers to the Greek partisans (andartes) giving support and encouragement to their cause, 18.00hrs. 1 item

Typescript of 'Anzac day', radio broadcast by Hamilton, on current Gallipoli day commemorations; the contributions of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Naval Air Service, and his difficulties in securing replacement drafts of troops during the Gallipoli Campaign. 5pp

Typescript of 'This is Anzac Day', Hamilton's radio broadcast to Australia, urging Australians to have more children and to allow British ex-servicemen to settle there, in order to populate and strengthen Australia against possible Japanese aggression via Singapore. 3pp

Question put to Menaul following lecture on air war over Vietnam.

Speech by Hamilton to an unspecified gathering in Edinburgh, on his own experiences of abstinence from alcohol, and advocating temperance in the British Army. 6pp

Typescript of Hamilton's speech to the Royal Army Temperance Association at Caxton Hall, Westminster, recalling a drunken regimental banquet in India in 1873, praising temperance in the army and pledging himself to abstain from alcohol for a year. 5pp

Proclamation in Greek, signed by delegates from ELAS (National People's Liberation Army), EDES (Greek Democratic National League), EKKA (National and Social Liberation), the Greek government in Cairo and Christopher Montague Woodhouse. 1 item

Press statement by Ismay for newsreels and television on the retirement of US Gen Dwight David Eisenhower as Supreme Commander North Atlantic Treaty Forces, Europe and the appointment of H van Vredenburgh as Deputy General Secretary, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Typescript, 1p

Frederick Barton Maurice. Statement to British & Allied Press representatives on situation as viewed at GHQ France. Typed 3 pp

Text of press conference by Ismay relating to the agenda for the ministerial meeting; the forthcoming Geneva conference, Switzerland; the defence ministers meeting; North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)'s current problems. Typescript, 10pp

Typescript of a preface by Hamilton to a history of the British Legion Scotland giving an account of the origins of the Legion from other ex-service organisations, 1918-1921. 9pp

Typescript of preface by Hamilton to The Liao-Yang Campaign by Lt Col Alfred Higgins Burne (William Clowes, London, 1936). 7pp

Typescript of preface by Hamilton to The Essex Regiment, 1st Battalion, 1741-1919 by John William Burrows (J H Burrow and Sons, Southend-on-Sea, 1923). 7pp

Typescript of Hamilton's preface to Searchlights. sonnets and other verse by Eva Mungall (Alexander Gardner, Paisley, 1929). 3pp

Typescript of preface by Hamilton for Duntroon (a history of the Royal Military College of Australia) by Col Joseph Edward Lee (Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1952). 1p

Text of appeal on behalf of the Poppy Day fund, made at Davis' Theatre, Croydon, Surrey. 5pp

Typescript poem, 'The morning sitrep [situation report], or the Staff Officer's revenge'. 2pp.

Manuscript and typescript petition from Fellows and Associates of King’s College London in support of drawing up a charter for the proposed ‘Albert University For London’ to allow past Associates of King’s College (AKC) to be admitted to a degree without examination.

Manuscript petition to the Secretary of King’s College London from N W Craighead and other students, requesting permission for all students to be allowed to wear the King’s College hood.