Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton
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Sep 13, 2026
Beth ThomasNARRATOR
In our times of tribulation in the Holy Land my thoughts often went back to the Dardanelles and I was heartened and cheered by the remembrance of the vastly different treatment meted out to the Jewish soldiers by the staff in Gallipoli.
Beth ThomasNARRATOR
Sir Ian Hamilton had vision enough to foresee what a tremendous force would be won over to the cause of England by dealing justly with Israel.
Beth ThomasNARRATOR
In the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force the attitude was essentially British.
Beth ThomasNARRATOR
I regret I cannot say the same of the staff of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in 1918 and 1919.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
They studied the continental systems of war, and when the great war came they had the records which were the undeniable recommendation that singled them out from their fellows.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
Sir John French and Sir Ian Hamilton belonged to the generation ahead of them, the difference being that between the fifties and the sixties.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
It was the test of command of a corps and afterward of an army in Flanders and northern France which made him commander-in-chief, a test of more than the academic ability which directs chessmen on the board, that of the physical capacity to endure the strain of month after month of campaigning, to keep a calm perspective, never to let the mastery of the force under you get out of hand, and never to be burdened with any details except those which are vital.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
The subordinate who went in an uncertain mood to see either Sir Douglas or Sir William left with a sense of stalwart conviction.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
The statement that the last wolf was killed on Humphrey Head near Grange can hardly be called a beginning, but at any rate it gives us another superlative in favour of the county, as does the fact that Backbarrow was the last place where charcoal was used for iron smelting.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
The list might easily be extended right down to the present time, for was there not a Lancashire landing in Gallipoli when Sir Ian Hamilton, watching through his field glass what he calls the boldest and most brilliant exploit of all, exclaimed, hardly believing his own words, We are through! And when on May 16th, 1921, the marble cross commemorating the 55th Lancashire Division's defence of Givenchy in the spring of 1918 was unveiled, a memorial which stands on the very line held by that division against the massed attacks of the Germans, and bears on its base the proud motto of which the division so fully proved itself worthy, They win or die who wear the rose of Lancaster.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
Marshal Joffre made the striking admission.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
It was here that the 55th Division gave the first check to the enemy's advance in the great offensive of 1918, and it was from here later that the division went forward to victory.