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*[http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/wings-over-gallipoli-our-stealth-mission-revealed-20120423-1xhpg.html  "Wings over Gallipoli: our stealth mission revealed"] by David Ellery April 24, 2012 ''The Canberra Times''. The role of the Royal Naval Air Service and the Ark Royal which carried sea planes and wheeled aircraft, and the extensive use of aerial reconnaissance
*[http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/wings-over-gallipoli-our-stealth-mission-revealed-20120423-1xhpg.html  "Wings over Gallipoli: our stealth mission revealed"] by David Ellery April 24, 2012 ''The Canberra Times''. The role of the Royal Naval Air Service and the Ark Royal which carried sea planes and wheeled aircraft, and the extensive use of aerial reconnaissance
*Many papers by USA military personnel, on  the Dardanelles and Gallipoli, are available in the Archive.org,  Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Collection using  [https://archive.org/details/dticarchive?and%5B%5D=Dardanelles&sin=&sort=-publicdate  search term Dardanelles], and [https://archive.org/details/dticarchive?and%5B%5D=Gallipoli&sin=&sort=-date  search term Gallipoli].
*Many papers by USA military personnel, on  the Dardanelles and Gallipoli, are available in the Archive.org,  Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Collection using  [https://archive.org/details/dticarchive?and%5B%5D=Dardanelles&sin=&sort=-publicdate  search term Dardanelles], and [https://archive.org/details/dticarchive?and%5B%5D=Gallipoli&sin=&sort=-date  search term Gallipoli].
*[http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a283487.pdf ''Operational Aspects of the Dardanelles Campaign, 1915''] by L. C. Mason Captain U. S. Navy. A paper submitted to the Faculty of the Naval War College 16 May 1994.
*[http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a283487.pdf ''Operational Aspects of the Dardanelles Campaign, 1915''] by L. C. Mason Captain U. S. Navy. A paper submitted to the Faculty of the Naval War College 16 May 1994. [https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA283487 Archive.org version].
*[http://www.army.gov.au/~/media/Files/Our%20future/LWSC%20Publications/WP/pdfs/wp110-From%20Legend%20to%20Learning_Michael%20Evans.pdf ''From Legend to Learning: Gallipoli and the Military Revolution of World War I''] by Michael Evans April 2000. Land Warfare Studies Centre Working Paper No. 110 army.gov.au
*[http://www.army.gov.au/~/media/Files/Our%20future/LWSC%20Publications/WP/pdfs/wp110-From%20Legend%20to%20Learning_Michael%20Evans.pdf ''From Legend to Learning: Gallipoli and the Military Revolution of World War I''] by Michael Evans April 2000. Land Warfare Studies Centre Working Paper No. 110 army.gov.au
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151117060508/http://www.nids.go.jp/english/event/forum/pdf/2014/03.pdf  ''Gallipoli 1915''] by Graham Dunlop (Retired Colonel, the Royal Marines), now an archived webpage.  A presentation at the NIDS  International Forum on War History, 13th Forum 2014. National Institute for Defence Studies, Tokyo Japan.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151117060508/http://www.nids.go.jp/english/event/forum/pdf/2014/03.pdf  ''Gallipoli 1915''] by Graham Dunlop (Retired Colonel, the Royal Marines), now an archived webpage.  A presentation at the NIDS  International Forum on War History, 13th Forum 2014. National Institute for Defence Studies, Tokyo Japan.

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War Diaries

Included in the many records held at the National Archives Kew is the series WO 95 - War Office: First World War and Army of Occupation War Diaries.

Some War Diaries, many of which are handwritten, have been digitised and are available (on a pay basis) online from the following sources: from the National Archives through the Discovery catalogue[1] and through Ancestry which contains the database "UK, WWI War Diaries (Gallipoli and Dardanelles), 1914-1916" (selected, and at times, part war diaries only)[2][3] (search hints[4]) (in addition to a Western Front database). The Ancestry database also contain War Diaries for some Indian, Australian and New Zealand Army regiments.
Transcribed (the handwriting has been deciphered for you!) (series title) Gallipoli Diaries, edited by Martin Gillott. publisher Great War Diaries, for British and Infantry Indian Army regiments, are available through Amazon.co.uk[5], in Kindle editions which have a Search facility (anyone with Kindle Unlimited can read them for free). (Download of a free Kindle App is available onto a PC, Mac or tablet - you don't need Kindle). The transcribed Indian Army Gallipoli Diaries are for Headquarters 29th Indian Infantry Brigade 1915 (includes Gurkhas and 14th King George’s Own Ferozepore Sikhs) and Gurkhas at Gallipoli 1915 (a combined edition 1/4th Gurkha Rifles 1915, 1/5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) 1915, 1/6th Gurkha Rifles 1915, 2/10th Bn Gurkha Rifles 1915, the latter four Diaries also available separately.

The Australian War Memorial website[6] contains Australian and New Zealand Army War diaries (available for free)

The British Library catalogue entry IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3951-3953 refers to "War diary, Army Headquarters India, Indian Expeditionary Force 'G' [Mediterranean]. GSI, 1915. 3 vols". There are further catalogue entries with reference to Indian Expeditionary Force G in IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3893 onwards "War diary, Army Headquarters India, Indian Expeditionary Force 'E'/'E' & 'G'/Egypt. GSI, 1914-19. 45 vol", with the note "13-38 = 'E' & 'G'". These records are printed volumes, not available online.

Aviation articles

  • There is a series of articles in Over the Front, Journal of the League of WWI Aviation Historians,[7] titled "Over The Wine Dark Sea, Aerial Aspects of the Dardanelles/Gallipoli Campaign". Initial three articles are in Volume 9, Number 1, 2, 3 (1994) by R D Layman, Ian Burns and Richard T Whistler. Part 3 is titled "Turco-German Aviation"; Part 4: "The German Wasserfliegerabteilung" by Richard T. Whistler Volume 11, Number 2 (1996); Part 5, "The Defense of the Bosphorus and the Fokker Staffel" by Richard T. Whistler Volume 11, Number 3 (1996).
  • 'Kite Balloons at Sea: Gallipoli and Salonika 1915-16" by Ian Burns Cross and Cockade International Journal[8] (Vol. 46, Number 1) Spring 2015. 1st page of article
  • Further articles in Cross and Cockade International Journal are mentioned in the Great War Forum topic, "Avro ? at Imbros"[9], or search the Journal Index

External links

Sketches online

  • Crusading at Anzac A. D. 1915 pictured and described by Signaller Ellis Silas. A Soldier Artist serving with the Australian Imperial Forces. Published 1916. National Library of Australia. Note: it is possible to rotate the images, by the icon in the lower RHS of the book reader.
An artist at The Landing—Signaller Silas, with links to his biography, sketches and diary extracts (the latter, 2 webpages). anzacportal.dva.gov.au
  • Sketches by then Captain Leslie Gore from the State Library of NSW. Sketches at Gallipoli, 1915, catalogue reference PXE 702. There are some additional sketches of Gallipoli at the beginning of the series [World War I sketches], catalogue reference PXE 703. Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge. Download is possible.
A selection of these sketches is described in An artist at Gallipoli – Major Hore with his Biographical details. anzacportal.dva.gov.au. He was with 4th reinforcements for the 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment, joining the regiment at Gallipoli on 26 May 1915.

Maps online

Trench maps of Suvla (provisional) 1:10 000 series (Squares 134 & 135). To enlarge, click on "Interactive zoomable image (needs Flash)". British Library Online Gallery.
  • Also see "Historical books online" which follows.
  • If you need additional maps, the Western Front Association, in association with the Imperial War Museums, has produced a Map DVD of more than 400 maps.[11]

Historical books online

Miscellaneous No.14 (1914): Despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople summarising events leading up to Rupture of Relations with Turkey, and reply thereto. Presented to both Houses of Parliament December 1914. HMSO 1914 Archive.org
  • The Straits Trilogy by Geoffrey Miller 1996-1999.
Superior Force : the conspiracy behind the escape of Goeben and Breslau by Geoffrey Miller 1996 ISBN 0 85958 635 9;
Straits: British Policy towards the Ottoman Empire and the Origins of the Dardanelles Campaign by Geoffrey Miller 1997 ISBN 0 85958 663 4;
The Millstone: British Naval Policy in the Mediterranean, 1900-1914, the Commitment to France and British Intervention in the War by Geoffrey Miller 1999 ISBN 0 85958 690 1
Military Operations Galliopli Vol-I Maps And Appendices 1929 Link to a pdf download from the Digital Library of India. Spelling is as catalogued. Archive.org version. Note most of the maps are missing.
Military Operations Gallipoli Volume II. Full title: History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Military Operations Gallipoli: Volume II May 1915 to the Evacuation. Links to a series of Chapter pdf downloads. Missing the Title page and Contents, Index is at the end of the book. STOU Digital Repository, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand.
Maps from Military Operations: Gallipoli Volume II Maps and Appendices University of Toronto. Titled "The Third Battle of Krithia".
  • Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 includes Volume I – The Story of ANZAC from the outbreak of war to the end of the first phase of the Gallipoli Campaign, May 4, 1915 (11th edition, 1941) Volume II – The Story of ANZAC from 4 May, 1915, to the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula (11th edition, 1941) Australian War Memorial website.
Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 1914–1918 Volume I – Gallipoli, Palestine and New Guinea (2nd edition, 1938). Australian War Memorial website.
Official historical account of the Dardanelles Campaign by Genelkurmay Baskanligi [Chief of General Staff] Turkey English translation 1925. Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library [USA Army]. Typescript copy translated from the Turk by Captain Larcher; translated from the French by Captain E.M. Benitez, the French translation appearing in Les Archives de la Grande Guerre, Volume 17 page 129 and page 257, published 1924. (gallica.bnf.fr)
Memoranda on some medical diseases in the Mediterranean war area, with some sanitary notes HMSO 1916 Archive.org.
"The Fly Pest in Gallipoli" by Staff Surgeon E L Atkinson R N page 147 Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service, Volume 2 1916. Archive.org.
"Naval Medical History of the War: Official History of the Medical Unit of the Royal Naval Division from its inception to the Evacuation of Gallipoli" by Surgeon Rear-Admiral Arthur Gaskell JRNMS Volumes 11-12. 1925-1926. Initial pages, from page 193 not linked; pages 276-291; pages 36-57; pages 121-140; pages 219- 227; pages 288-309. Archive.org. Includes information about the Royal Naval Division generally, not just the Medical Unit.
Fifty Thousand Miles on a Hospital Ship by “The Padre” [Charles Steel Wallis] 1917 Archive.org. The hospital ship that Padre Wallis joined in 1915 was most likely the 'Goorkha'.[12] She was then an Indian Hospital Ship staffed by doctors from the Indian Medical Service, although subsequently became a British Hospital Ship. Includes evacuation of men from Gallipoli.
"Chapter VII Diplomacy in Turkey" page 110 The Craft Sinister; a diplomatico-political history of the great war and its causes by George Abel Schreiner 1920 Archive.org. Includes Comments about Mr Lewis Einstein, refer book author, above, page 132.
Based on the above, but revised, largely rewritten and condensed A History of the Great War, Volume II by John Buchan 1923 Archive.org.
The online JRAMC extracts are easier to read, but missing some parts. Gallipoli Chapters 5-9. Missing May 1936, Chapter 5, (available in main link from page numbered 349) 6-7 June 1936, 66 (6) 402-412; 8-9 July 1936, 67 (1) 58-66.
Also see above "Official History of the Medical Unit of the Royal Naval Division..."

References

  1. Discovery catalogue
  2. UK, WWI War Diaries (Gallipoli and Dardanelles), 1914-1916 consisting of WO 95/4263-4359 records. Ancestry. It seem probable that not all records within this range are included, in line with the Western Front database which does not included all records in the specified range.
  3. stiletto_33853. Ancestry vs National Archives Great War Forum 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018. Ancestry diaries may have large parts (many months) missing compared to TNA files
  4. MrSwan. Ancestry war diaries Great War Forum 17 December 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  5. Gallipoli Diaries and Great War Diaries amazon.co.uk
  6. Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914-18 War
  7. Over the Front, The League of WWI Aviation Historians
  8. Cross and Cockade International
  9. b3rn. Avro ? at Imbros Great War Forum 21 February 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  10. PassTHE knowledge by Akhi Soufyan
  11. Mapping the Front DVD Gallipoli Western Front Association.
  12. frev. Norwegian Matron on Indian Hospital Ship Great War Forum 3 October 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  13. Page from Chapter 2, Grasping Gallipoli: Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915 by Peter Chasseaud, Peter Doyle. Google Books.
  14. Buley, Ernest Charles (1869–1933) Australian Dictionary of Biography
  15. Page 59The Dardanelles Campaign, 1915: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography‬ by Fred R. Van Hartesveldt Google Books