Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton



Sir  GCB, GCMG, DSO, TD (16 January 1853 – 12 October 1947) was a senior officer in the British Army, who is most notable for commanding the during the.

Quotes

 * If a man divides the whole of his work into two branches and delegates his responsibility, freely and properly, to two experienced heads of branches he will not have enough to do. The occasions when they would have to refer to him would be too few to keep him fully occupied. If he delegates to three heads he will be kept fairly busy whilst six heads of branches will give most bosses a ten hours' day. Those data are the results of centuries of the experiences of soldiers.
 * Sir Ian Hamilton, The Soul and Body of an Army, 1921


 * “You have got through the difficult business, now you dig, dig, dig, until you are safe.”


 * Sir Ian Hamilton, Orders from the Gallipoli campaign , April 25th, 1914