GORDON, GEORGE HAMILTON
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: GORDON, GEORGE HAMILTON
Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/SAL/028
Creator(s): Gordon, Colonel George Hamilton (1875-1961)
Date(s): 1915-1918
Language: English; Bulgarian
Size and medium: 1 file; printed documents; typecript documents; photographs; newspaper cuttings; postcards
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/30146
Collection group(s): Liddle Collection
Description
(1) Panoramic photograph (nd); Armband (nd); Diary (nd); Diary (1917); 7 postcards (1917-1918, nd); 35 photographs (nd); 2 letters from Captain C. Falls (17 May 1933, 28 Feb 1934); Perspective map (19 May 1916); Memorandum (20 Sep 1918); Gaiety Theatre programme (July 1918); Letter (nd); Diary pages (11 Oct-16 Dec 1915); Report extract, with memorandum (13 May 1917, 17 May 1917); Special Order of the Day relating to peace with Bulgaria (30 Sep 1918); 2 letters (13 Dec 1915, 15 Dec 1915); Manuscript reconnaissance report (29 Dec 1915); News-sheet 'The Balkan News' (22 Aug 1917); Bulgarian rail freight receipt (nd).
(2) Scanned service record, biographical summary, photographs (including group with Winston Churchill); CD with scanned medals (also those of Henley CF).
A separate accrual in 2023 comprises:
1) G. H. Hamilton's original service record;
2) Two postcards, one of Salonika and one of Lord Kitchener;
3) A Regiment of Artillery Christmas and New Year card from Hamilton to his daughter, Suzanne;
4) Correspondence between Hamilton's family and the Royal Artillery Institution;
5) A newspaper cutting about the Liddle Archive.
Biography or history
Gordon, George Hamilton (1875-1961). Captain, R.F.A. (Royal Field Artillery), 10th Division, serving in Salonika. Later Colonel. D.S.O., C.M.G.
Provenance
The papers were placed in the Collection by (1) Mrs Suzanne Henley (daughter) (1979) & (2) Robert Henley (grandson) (2010). See Research Correspondence Files.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
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