Showing 66922 results

Scrapbook of mostly New Zealand newspaper cuttings on Hamilton's tour of New Zealand as Inspector General of Overseas Forces, including on his inspection of the New Zealand Royal Artillery at Fort Dorset, Wellington, North Island, where the wreck of the SS DEVON was used for target practice during his visit, 22 May; on his reviews of cadets at Wellington, Masterton, Blenheim, 25-28 May; on his review of a birthday parade for George V, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Newtown Park, Wellington, 4 Jun. With Australian newspaper articles on Hamilton's official report on the Australian Army, 20-26 May. 1 vol

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper articles by William le Queux on Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin, Russian mystic, in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, Jun-Aug 1917; newspaper cuttings on the report of the Mesopotamia Commission, Jun-Jul 1917; on the abdication of Constantine I, King of Greece, 12 Jun; on a German air raid on London, causing over 500 civilian casualties, 13 Jun. With printed manifesto, 'Suggestions for terms of a peace settlement', 1917, issued by the Executive Committee of the Union of Democratic Control, signatories including Frederick William Jowett and James Ramsay MacDonald, MPs; programme, signed by servicemen and dedicated to Lady Hamilton, for 'Trelawny of the Wells', comedietta by Arthur Wing Pinero, New Theatre, London, 27 Jul. 1 vol

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cuttings on the suggestions of German culpability for the outbreak of war made by Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky, former German ambassador to Britain, Mar-Apr; on the German Spring offensive on the Western Front (Second Battle of the Somme), including the battles of St Quentin, Bapaume, the Lys and Kemmel Ridge, Mar-Apr; on the visit of Hamilton to Bristol for Gallipoli day commemorations, 25 Apr 1918; on demonstrations against proposals for conscription in Ireland; on the controversy over the letter of Maj Gen Frederick Barton Maurice to The Times, accusing the British Prime Minister of misleading Parliament over Army strength, 8 May; on the arrests of Sinn Fein leaders, on suspicion of plotting a rebellion in Ireland with German support, 19 May. 1 vol

Scrapbook of mostly Australian and New Zealand newspaper cuttings on Hamilton's tour of Australia and New Zealand as Inspector General of Overseas Forces, mainly relating to his inspections of troops, cadets, parades and military manoeuvres including his inspections of Ballarat Infantry Bde, 19 Mar, manoeuvres of 23 Rgt Light Horse at Kapunda, South Australia, 24 Mar and 10 Infantry Bde at Liverpool, New South Wales, 27 Mar; his inspections of 23,000 citizen forces and cadets at Centennial Park, Sydney, New South Wales, 28 Mar, the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, New South Wales, 31 Mar and metropolitan riflemen's clubs, Williamstown, Melbourne, Victoria, 6 Apr; his review of a parade of the Otago garrison artillery, Otago and Dunedin cadets and the New Zealand National Reserve at the Oval, Dunedin, South Island, 28 Apr. 1 vol

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cuttings on the trial for treason, Paris, France, of Paul-Marie Bolo, known as Bolo Pasha, for receiving German funds to disseminate pro-German propaganda in the French press, 4-14 Feb; replacement of Gen Sir William Robert Robertson by Gen Sir Henry Hughes Wilson as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 18 Feb; on the suggestions of German culpability for the outbreak of war, made by Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky, former German ambassador to Britain, 15 Mar; on the German Spring offensive on the Western Front (Second Battle of the Somme), 22 Mar. 1 vol

Scrapbook of mostly Australian newspaper cuttings on Hamilton's tour of Australia as Inspector General of Overseas Forces, mainly relating to his inspections of troops, cadets, parades and military manoeuvres including exercises of 13 Infantry Bde at Lilydale, South Australia, 12-16 Feb; his inspection of the Lithgow Small Arms Factory, Queensland, 26 Feb; his review of over 20,000 cadets at Centennial Park, Sydney, 28 Feb; his inspections of manoeuvres involving the 3 Bde Light Horse at Goulburn, New South Wales, and 5 Bde Light Horse at Broadford, Victoria, 4-5 Mar; his inspection of physical training exercises by Victoria State school pupils at Melbourne Cricket Ground, 9 Mar. With edition of the Daily Express, (20 Jul 1918), containing article on Hamilton's praise for the service of French Gen Henri Joseph Étienne Gouraud during the Dardanelles Expedition. 1 vol

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cuttings on the explosion at Silvertown munitions factory, east London, 19 Jan; on the reaction to the speech of Woodrow Wilson, US President, to the US Senate, proposing belligerent nations settle for 'peace without victory', 22 Jan; on the sixteenth annual Labour Party conference, Manchester, 23 Jan. With typed extracts from The Chevalier de Boufflers: a romance of the French Revolution (John Murray, London, 1916) by Nesta Helen Webster; letter to Lady Hamilton, from [Arthur] Mackenzie, editor of the Chronicles of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, with thanks for her praise of the magazine, 22 Jan. 1 vol

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cuttings on the arrest and trial of Emile Jules Henri Cottin for the attempted assassination of Georges Clemenceau, French Prime Minister, 22 Feb-14 Mar; on a possible Allied tribunal to try Wilhelm II, ex-Kaiser of Germany, for war crimes, Mar-Jul; on Hamilton's refusal to accept the offer by Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Secretary of State for War, of Northern Command, British Army, on the grounds of age, 19 Mar; on the unveiling of a memorial plaque to Rupert Chawner Brooke, poet, by Hamilton in Rugby School chapel, 28 Mar; on Hamilton as guest of honour at Gallipoli day commemorations in Bristol, 26 Apr; on dances and bazaars given by Lady Hamilton, in aid of the Paddington Children's Hotel and day nursery, May and Jul; on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 28 Jun. With menu card for a farewell dinner for Gen William Riddell Birdwood, London, July 1919; typescript of anonymous satirical poem, 'After morning prayer-quicunque vult'. 1 vol

Scrapbook, including two photographs of Hamilton, FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford, Lt Gen Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, Lt Gen Thomas Kelly-Kenny and the family of German FM Karl Konstantin Albrecht Leonhard von Blumenthal, Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany [Sep 1902]; typescript of Hamilton's speech 'Our fallen comrades', given at a Ladysmith dinner, 1 Mar 1909; newspaper cuttings, including on Hamilton's views proposing that a large conscript army could be defeated by a smaller force who possessed greater training and discipline, The Spectator (5 Sept 1903); on Hamilton's visit to Canada and the USA, Oct 1903, including his inspection of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, Toronto, as guest of honour at a dinner given in Washington DC, by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the USA and his review of cadets at US Military Academy, West Point, New York; 'When candour offends', article in The Army and Navy Journal, 17 Mar 1906, on the hostile Japanese reaction to remarks made by Hamilton in his A staff officer's scrapbook (Edward Arnold, London, 1905); on the annual meeting of the Royal Army Temperance Association, where Roberts distributed prizes and Hamilton, as chairman, made a public pledge of total abstinence from alcohol for one year, Temperance Chronicle (15 May 1909). 1 vol

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cuttings on the appointment of Hamilton as Lieutenant of the Tower of London, 2 Sep 1918; on speculation over the possible murder of Tsar Nicholas II and the imperial Russian family; on the controversy regarding the proposed award of the Gallipoli medal to colonial troops only; on strikes of the Metropolitan Police and railwaymen, Sep 1918. 1 vol

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper articles by William le Queux in the Illustrated Sunday Herald on Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin, Russian mystic; article, 'A beautiful British home, General Sir Ian Hamilton's residence', on 1 Hyde Park Gardens, London, from Every Woman, 29 Sep 1917; newspaper cuttings on the peace note of Pope Benedict XV to belligerent nations, Aug 1917; on the Peace Conference at Stockholm, Sweden, Aug 1917; on Philip Alexius Laszlo de Lombos, known as Philip de Laszlo, artist, interned by the British government as a potentially hostile alien, 24 Sep. 1 vol

Scrapbook of mostly New Zealand newspaper cuttings on Hamilton's tour of New Zealand as Inspector General of Overseas Forces, including on his inspection of manoeuvres of Territorial forces at Tapawera camp, Nelson, South Island, 5 May; on his inspections of Auckland cadets and coastal defences of the garrisons at Forts Cautley, Takapuna and the Bastion, Auckland, 14 May; on his speech at Auckland warning of the perceived threat to Australasia from Asian nations and suggesting the Pacific would be a future battleground between Asians and Europeans, 14 May, including hostile reaction from the Japanese press to his speech, 20-21 May; on the fire at Government House, Auckland, which started in Hamilton's room, 14 May; editorials of New Zealand press on Hamilton's opposition to compulsory military service in Britain, 6-16 May. 1 vol

Scrapbook of newspaper and journal cuttings, including 'The Gallipoli history', article in The Army Quarterly (Oct 1929) by Lt Col F Cunliffe-Owen, with associated cuttings, on the alleged lack of intelligence gathering prior to the start of the Dardanelles Expedition; reviews of Memories of four fronts by Lt Gen Sir William Raine Marshall (Ernest Benn, London, 1929), to which Hamilton contributed an introduction; reviews of Gallipoli Memories by Edward Montague Compton MacKenzie (Cassel, London, 1929); 'The end of war', article in Life and Letters (Nov 1929), featuring the correspondence between Hamilton and Erich Maria Remarque regarding Hamilton's opinion of All quiet on the Western Front [Im Westen nichts Neues] (Putnam, London, 1929); review by Hamilton of Commando-a Boer journal of the Boer War by Deneys Reitz (Faber and Faber, London, 1929), The Observer (17 Nov 1929); 'The lines of communications in the Dardanelles' article by Lt Gen Sir George Fletcher MacMunn, The Army Quarterly (Apr 1930); on Hamilton's call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into conduct of troops on the Western Front, following the allegations of drunkenness and immorality expressed in A brass hat in no man's land by Brig Gen Frank Percy Crozier, Apr 1930 (Jonathan Cape, London, 1930); on Hamilton's appearance at Cambridge University Union speaking against a motion calling for the abolition of military training in British schools, Oct 1930; on Tell England, film on the Gallipoli landings, in which Hamilton appeared as himself in a scene recreating the conference of 10 Apr 1915 on board RN battleship HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, Dec 1930; 'Gallipoli-a retrospect', article based on BBC radio broadcast interview between Hamilton and Compton MacKenzie, The Listener (29 Apr 1931); reviews of A glance at Gallipoli by Lt Col Charles Octavius Head (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1931), with associated cuttings on Hamilton's response to Head's criticism of his leadership of the Dardanelles Campaign, May 1931; reviews of The cross of Carl by Walter Owen (Grant Richards, London, 1931), to which Hamilton contributed a preface; review by Hamilton of The coming war by Gen Friedrich Wilhelm Erich Ludendorff (Faber and Faber, London, 1931), The Observer (7 Jun 1931); reviews of Anti-commando by Hamilton and Victor Sampson (Faber and Faber, London, 1931); 'One more drop of blood!', article by Hamilton on his hatred of war, John Bull (30 Jan 1932); 'Fifty years-making the new soldier', article by Hamilton on his early career in the Gordon Highlanders, The Times (12 Feb 1932); photographs of Hamilton at Government House, Toronto, Canada, Oct 1930, and parade of the Toronto Veterans of Gallipoli Club, Apr 1932. 1 vol, 4 photographs

Scrapbook of newspaper and journal cuttings, including 'The Turkish staff history of the campaign in Gallipoli', article in The Army Quarterly (Jan 1926); 'Dardanelles from the enemy's side', article by Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, The Daily Telegraph (14 Feb 1926); review by Hamilton of The perils of amateur strategy as exemplified by the attack on the Dardanelles fortress in 1915 by Lt Gen Sir Gerald Francis Ellison (Longmans, New York, 1926), The Observer (20 Jun 1926); reviews of Hamilton's Now and then (Methuen, London, 1926); reviews of Gallipoli Today by T J Pemberton (Ernest Benn, London, 1926), to which Hamilton contributed an introduction; letter from Hamilton to The Times (1 Jan 1927), attributing FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, with improvements in the standard of musketry in the British Army; 'Britain's lone hand in the Far East', article by Hamilton on the perceived threat to British colonies from Asian powers, The Illustrated Sunday Herald (30 Jan 1927); 'Chinese or Russian-which will be which', article by Hamilton on the growth of Russian influence over China, The Observer (3 Apr 1927); on Hamilton's speech to the Royal Naval Division Officers' Association, describing the great opposition of FM Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Bt, to the Dardanelles Expedition, Nov 1927; reviews of The Uncensored Dardanelles by Ellis Ashmead Bartlett (Hutchinson, London, 1928); 'Kitchener and the Territorials', letter from Hamilton to The Times (11 Sep 1928) on the contribution of FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome to the formation of Territorial units in World War One; Ghosts that haunt me', article by Hamilton on his most vivid military memories, John Bull (10 Nov 1928); 'The Channel Tunnel-what it would have meant in 1914', article by Hamilton published in the provincial press, Feb 1929; reviews of The official history of the Gallipoli campaign, volume 1 by Brig Gen Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander (Heinemann, London, 1929). 1 vol

Scrapbook of newspaper and journal cuttings, including articles on Hamilton's speech to the Westminster British Legion, proposing that German ex-soldiers should be admitted to the London congress of the Fédération Inter-Alliée des Anciens Combatants, Sep 1924; 'The Suvla Bay failure-new evidence, article from The Times (14 Feb 1925) featuring a letter from James T Underhill, former officer of the East Yorkshire Regt, stating that the Tekke Tepe Ridge, Dardanelles Peninsula, was only lightly held by Turkish troops, and supporting Hamilton's claims that this position should have been captured by Allied forces on 8-9 Aug 1915; Obituary for French Gen Charles Louis Marie Lanrezac, The Times (Jan 1925); 'Hindenburg-the portent', article by Hamilton in The Sunday Express (19 Apr 1925), proposing a moderation of the British perception of German FM Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg; on his speech to the Association of 29 Div, 25 Apr 1925, stating that he considered aborting the Gallipoli landings because of leaked details of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the Egyptian press. 1 vol

Scrapbook of newspaper and journal cuttings, including 'The courage of Jan Smuts', biographical article by Hamilton in praise of Jan Christian Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, The Star (26 Oct 1923); reviews of Hamilton's The friends of England-lectures to members of the British Legion (Allen and Unwin, London, 1923); 'New light on Gallipoli', letter by Hamilton to The Times (30 Oct 1923), stating that the Tekke Tepe Ridge, Dardanelles peninsula, should have been captured by Allied troops on 8 Aug 1915, with supporting letter from John Still, former adjutant of 6 Bn East Yorkshire Regt; speculation on Hamilton being appointed Secretary of State for War, Daily Express (15 Jan 1924); on his lecture tour of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, Jan-Feb 1924; on his speech to the London Press Club, proposing that British infantry forces should be reduced by two thirds and the remainder of the Army be converted to mechanised divisions, 25 Feb 1924; on his speech to the British Legion, Hull, ascribing the failure of the Dardanelles Expedition to the failure of the Allied High Command to allocate him reinforcements from Egypt, 13 Apr 1924. 1 vol

Scrapbook of newspaper and journal cuttings, including reviews of Hamilton's Gallipoli Diary (Edward Arnold, London, 1920); reviews of Hamilton's Soul and body of an army (Edward Arnold, London, 1921); reviews of the The John Keats Memorial Volume (John Lane, London and New York, 1921) edited by George Charles Williamson, to which Hamilton contributed an article proposing that the Treaty of Versailles had failed to meet the expectations of the soldiers of World War One; 'The Right Honorable Winston Spencer Churchill', article by Hamilton, MacLean's Magazine (15 Jun 1921); on his speech to the London Press Club, proposing that the Washington Conference be lenient with Japan regarding arms control, and that Japan be allowed to pursue colonial interests in China, Nov 1921; on his speech at the dinner of 52 (Lowland) Div, Glasgow, suggesting that the failure of the Dardanelles Campaign had adversely affected British prestige in Egypt and India, Feb 1922; on his visit to Germany, including his meeting with German Gen Friedrich Wilhelm Erich Ludendorff near Munich, 20 Apr 1922. 1 vol

Scrapbook of newspaper and journal cuttings, including reviews of Hamilton's Gallipoli Diary (Edward Arnold, London, 1920); on the response of the Australian war correspondent Keith Arthur Murdoch to the publication of Gallipoli Diary, May 1920; letter from Lt Gen Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to The Morning Post (27 May 1920) responding to Hamilton's claim in Gallipoli Diary that Maxwell and FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, refused to send Hamilton a brigade of Gurkhas from Egypt to the Dardanelles, with Hamilton's reply, The Morning Post (28 May 1920); letters to The Times from 'An Australian soldier' (18 Jun 1920) justifying the actions of Murdoch in discrediting Hamilton's command of the Dardanelles campaign, with Hamilton's reply (19 Jun 1920); review of Fünf Jahre Türkei by German Gen Otto Victor Carl Liman von Sanders (Scherl, Berlin, 1920), The Times Literary Supplement, 22 Jul 1920; letter from Hamilton to the Westminster Gazette (10 Aug 1920) arguing that the Treaty of Versailles would cause German resentment and could not safeguard countries established under its terms; 'Gallipoli', poem by David Mckee Wright, The Bulletin (2 Sep 1920); on the presentation by Hamilton of original drafts of his dispatches from the Dardanelles to the Mitchell Library, Sydney, Australia, and the Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand; 'The hero in the gutter-how we can get him out of it', article by Hamilton on unemployed ex-servicemen, The Daily Graphic (24 Dec 1920). 1 vol

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cutting of letter by Hamilton to The Times, suggesting that the Dardanelles campaign had adversely affected British prestige in Egypt, 22 Dec 1919; newspaper cuttings on the presentation by Hamilton of clan shields to the Highlanders' Memorial Church, Glasgow, 18 Jun 1919; on a reading by Lady Margaret Sackville of her poetry at the house of Lady Hamilton, 19 Nov 1919; on the funeral of FM Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, 7 Dec 1919; on the death of John Twells Brex, journalist, 7 Jan 1920; reviews of The Dardanelles by Maj Gen Sir Charles Edward Callwell (Constable and Co, London, 1919). 1 vol

Scrapbook of newspaper and journal cuttings, including interview of German Gen Otto Victor Carl Liman von Sanders, with his opinion of Allied conduct of the Dardanelles Campaign, The Daily Telegraph (26 Nov 1918); reviews of Hamilton's The Millenium? (Edward Arnold, London, 1919); reviews of Henry Woodd Nevinson's The Dardanelles Campaign (Nisbet & Co, London, 1918); on Hamilton's refusal to accept the offer by Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Secretary of State for War, of Northern Command, British Army, on the grounds of age, 31 Mar 1919; review of Gallipoli by anonymous officer of Liman von Sanders' staff (Berlin, Scherl, 1919), The Times Literary Supplement, 3 Jul 1919; articles on the final report of the Dardanelles Commission, Nov 1919; reviews of The Dardanelles by Maj Gen Sir Charles Edward Callwell (Constable and Co, London, 1919); letter from Hamilton to The Times (22 Dec 1919), suggesting that the failure of the Dardanelles Campaign had adversely affected British prestige in Egypt; review of Noel Ross and his work, (Edward Arnold, London, 1919) edited by M Ross and Mrs M Ross with a preface by Hamilton, The Nation (16 Jan 1920); on Hamilton's speech to veterans of 42 Div East Lancashire Territorials, condemning compulsory military service, 31 Jan-2 Feb 1920; letter from Hamilton to The Times (2 Feb 1920) calling for Liman von Sanders to be excluded from the official list of war criminals; on Hamilton's speech to veterans of the 455 West Riding Field Company, 29 Div, proposing that the Dardanelles Campaign could have been won had the attentions of the Allied High Command not been centred on the Western Front, 24 Apr 1920. 1 vol