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The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli or the Battle of Çanakkale (Turkish: Çanakkale Savaşı), was a campaign of the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula (Gelibolu in modern Turkey), from 17 February 1915 to 9 January 1916.[1]

Contents

Also see

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[2] and through Ancestry which contains the database "UK, WWI War Diaries (Gallipoli and Dardanelles), 1914-1916" (selected, and at times, part war diaries only)[3][4] (search hints[5]) (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 the late Martin Gillott, publisher Great War Diaries, for British and Infantry Indian Army regiments, are available through Amazon.co.uk[6], 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[7] 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.

Regimental and Corps Histories, Reports

  • History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery : the Forgotten Fronts and the Home Base 1914-18 by Sir Martin Farndale 1988. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008145796
  • Die In Battle Do Not Despair: The Indians on Gallipoli 1915 by Peter Stanley 2015. Available at Queen Mary University of London Library and University of Oxford Library.
  • The Mitchell Report: Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Attacks delivered on and the Enemy Defences of the Dardanelles Straits, 1919. (CB1550). Printed in April 1921. Available at The National Archives, Kew ADM 186/600-602.
The historian Arthur J Marder considers that this report is "highly significant", see Historical books online - Naval, below.

Aviation articles

  • There is a series of articles in Over the Front, Journal of the League of WWI Aviation Historians,[8] 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 2 is titled "Operations of HMS Ben-My-Chree, June 1915 - January 1916"; Part 3 "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). (For library sources, see Royal Air Force - External links, including Imperial War Museums).
  • 'Kite Balloons at Sea: Gallipoli and Salonika 1915-16" by Ian Burns Cross and Cockade International Journal[9] (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"[10], or search the Journal Index to Vol. 50 and Recent Journals.

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, now archived.
  • 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, archived pages. He was with 4th reinforcements for the 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment, joining the regiment at Gallipoli on 26 May 1915.

Maps online

  • Gallipoli Gazetteer wfa.tmapper.com. Shows location of many different places, including both English and Turkish names.
TrenchMapper Western Front Association. Access link for the public. WFA members get privileged access via the WFA login page. The site launched on 28th March 2022 with more than 1,100 maps but in the future that number is planned to reach approximately 7,000. The main emphasis at introduction is on the Western Front and Gallipoli but other theatres will be added in the future. All maps are free to use, while some maps can be downloaded for a fee. WFA members get two free maps a month and are able to zoom in further for more detail. For the left hand side menu select "Frequently Asked Questions" which has links to many other sections with information such as Using the site; About the project; Knowledge Centre.
Trench maps of Suvla (provisional) 1:10 000 series (Squares 134 & 135).
To enlarge, click on "Full size printable image'. Both British Library Online Gallery.
  • "World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula -- Maps.". Select "All online" filter, right hand side of the webpage. 32 online maps from National Library of Australia.
  • "Gallipoli" page 109 A Military Atlas of the First World War by Arthur Banks 1975. Archive.org Lending Library.
  • 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.[13]

Historical books online

Official histories, despatches, background etc

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
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 Spelling is as catalogued. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Note most of the maps are missing.
Military Operations Gallipoli Volume II. Archive.org. Full title: History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Military Operations Gallipoli: Volume II May 1915 to the Evacuation. The digital file is a series of multiple Parts. Missing the Title page and Contents, Index is at the end of the book. Mirror of multiple files from STOU Digital Repository, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, the STOU website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours".
6 Maps titled "The Third Battle of Krithia" University of Toronto. From Military Operations: Gallipoli Volume II Maps and Appendices, (maps in back pocket) see catalogue entry nla.gov.au.
The Ancestry owned pay website fold3 includes an online book Gallipoli, (located in Military Books-located by the Search/Turkey) which consists of reprint editions from Naval & Military Press of the four volumes of Military Operations Gallipoli (being two volumes of text, and two volumes of appendices, but possibly missing the maps from the back pockets).
  • Notes on the Turkish Army, with a short vocabulary of Turkish words and phrases. 1915, a War office booklet, is available in a reprint edition,[14] which in turn is available as a digital book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in Military Books-located by the Search/Turkey.
  • History of the Great War based on official documents. Order of Battle of Divisions Parts 1, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B and 4 all by Major A.F. Becke (London: HMSO, 1935-1945). Most are available on Archive.org or Google Books, and all on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, which also includes a later Index volume. For details see Western Front- Historical books online-Official Histories and Battles. Includes Gallipoli.
There were subsequent publications Order of Battle of Divisions Part 5A, Divisions of Australia, Canada and New Zealand and those in East Africa, compiled by F.W. Perry c 1992. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006378898 and Order of Battle of Divisions. Part 5B, Indian Army Divisions compiled by F. W. Perry c 1993 available at the B.L. UIN: BLL01008151437 . The latter is also catalogued with the additional title History of the Great War : based on official documents.
Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, see Medical, below.
23 September 1915 letter about Gallipoli from Keith Arthur Murdoch, then Australian war correspondent, to Australian Prime Minister Andrew Fisher (written from London).
Pdf, html version documentcloud.org. Record is from National Library of Australia, catalogue entry Papers of Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch, 1908-1967 Manuscript reference no.: MS 2823. NLA viewer.
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)
Online histories, Turkish language, from Ministry of National Defence, Republic of Turkey. Includes maps. Çanakkale Harbi Seris, Turkish language. Çanakkale War Series Google Translate English version of the website, (but not the histories). Includes item 6 Çanakkale Deniz Savaşı or Canakkale Sea Battle, and item 7 Birinci Dünya Harbi'nde Türk Harbi, Çanakkale Cephesi Harekâtı V. Cilt 1,2,3 Kitapların Özetlenmiş Tarihi or Turkish War in the First World War, Çanakkale Front Operation V. Volume 1,2,3. The latter is a summarised edition of three volumes. Direct pdf link for item 7, Turkish language.
  • Der Kampf um die Dardanellen 1915 Part of the series Schlachten des Weltkrieges. German language. The Digital State Library of Upper Austria. To view the photographs and maps, click on the Thumbnail gallery and select.
  • Gallipoli Diary by Sir Ian Hamilton 1920. Archive.org Volume I, Volume II. Volume II includes informative Appendices relating to Artillery and Instructions.
Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatches from the Dardanelles 1915 Archive.org
Ian Hamilton’s Final Despatch 1916 Archive.org
  • Despatches from the Front. Gallipoli and the Dardanelles 1915-1916 Introduced and compiled by John Grehan and Martin Mace 2014 Archive.org Books to Borrow. Despatches from Sir Ian Hamilton, Sir Charles Munro, Sir John de Robeck.
  • Gallipoli Page 249 Khaki and Gown : an Autobiography by Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood 1941. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Birdwood was Corps Commander Australian and New Zealand contingent.
  • Five Years in Turkey by Otto Liman von Sanders, translated, from the 1920 German edition Funf Jahre Turkei, by Col Carl Reichman, US Army (Retired) published 1927 by the United States Naval Institute. Contents. With two maps at the back of the book. Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt. Also available Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • The Dardanelles Campaign by General Liman von Sanders translation and comments by E.H. Schulz, Colonel, Corps of Engineers, US Army (The Engineer School, Fort Humphreys, Virginia) 1931 nla.gov.au. An extract and translation from the above book Funf Jahre Turkei.
    • Includes a short abstract translation from the account of the German Major E R Prigge.[15]
  • The Campaign in Gallipoli by Hans Kannengiesser Pasha 1928, translated by Major C.J.P. Ball from the original German edition Gallipoli, Bedeutung und Verlauf der Kämpfe 1915, published 1927. Archive.org.
    • "Two German Accounts of Gallipoli" page 377 The Army Quarterly Volume 14, 1927 April- July. Archive.org. Includes Kannengiesser's Gallipoli.
    • Landing of the British forces in Gallipoli, 1915 by Hans Kannengiesser Pasha. New translated version 1940, extract from original German edition Gallipoli, Bedeutung und Verlauf der Kämpfe 1915. Link to Pdf download Combined Arms Research Library [CARL] Digital Library [USA].
Author Hans Kannengiesser was a German general commanding the 9th Turkish division in the Fifth Army of General Liman von Sanders. He actually commanded Turkish troops in action, holding the Turkish rank of Pasha - roughly equivalent to marshal.
Kemal Ataturk, a Biography by Hanns Froembgen, translated from the German by Kenneth Kirkness [1937] Archive.org. German title Kamal Atatürk: Soldat Und Führer 1935, catalogued by National Library of Australia as "Fictionized biography".
Ataturk: a Biography of Mustafa Kemal, Father of modern Turkey by Lord Kinross 1965. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Wikipedia. He became President of Turkey in 1923.

General histories etc

  • Nelson’s History of the War by John Buchan. published 1915-1919, Volume 6, Volume 9 and Volume 12 contain chapters on Gallipoli. Archive.org.
Based on the above, but revised, largely rewritten and condensed A History of the Great War, Volume II by John Buchan 1923 Archive.org.
  • Gallipoli by John Masefield 1916 Archive.org
  • The Dardanelles by Major General Sir C E Callwell 1919 Archive.org. A book in the series "Campaigns and their Lessons".
Experiences of a Dug-Out, 1914-1918, by Major General Sir C E Callwell 1920 Archive.org. The author was appointed to the high ranking role of Director of Military Operations (DMO) at the War Office at the outbreak of the war. [Dug-Out: a retired officer, recalled to employment]. Includes "Chapter V: The Dardanelles", page 86.
"The Dardanelles, Chapter II" page 29 Last Changes Last Chances by Henry W. Nevinson 1928 Archive.org. Henry Nevinson Wikipedia.
  • The Gallipoli Campaign: An Outline of the Military Operations by A Student. Published London 1923. "This work is intended to be an aid to those preparing for Army Examinations. The endeavor has been to eliminate unnecessary detail, but, at the same time, to include all that is essential for a clear understanding of the campaign". State Library of Victoria.
  • Source Records of the Great War, Volume III 1915, by Charles F Horne and Walter Austin 1923.
  • Notes on the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915 by Major Sherman Miles GS. The Coast Artillery Journal [USA]. Part 1: pages 506-521 Volume 61, Number 6, December 1924 and Part 2: pages 207-222 Volume 62, Number 3, March 1925. Archive.org
  • Gallipoli Today by T J Pemberton 1926 Archive.org. "Postscript to the campaign, including descriptions of the terrain, the cemeteries & memorials, work of the War Graves Commission &c." [18]
  • The Dardanelles Expedition: a Condensed Study by W D Puleston, Captain US Navy 2nd edition 1927 (first published 1926). HathiTrust Digital Library
  • Behind the Scenes in Many Wars being the Military Reminiscences of Lieut.-General Sir George MacMunn 1930 includes Chapters on Gallipoli commencing page 120 Archive.org.
  • Notes And Comments On The Dardanelles Campaign by A. Kearsey, originally published 1934, is available in a reprint edition[19] which in turn is available as a digital book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in Military Books-located by the Search/Turkey. Also available HathiTrust searchable, but not viewable. These notes and comments are intended to be a guide for officers studying the campaign.
  • The Defense of Gallipoli – A General Staff Study by G. S. Patton, Jr., Lt. Col., General Staff, Headquarters, Hawaiian Department, Fort Shafter, T. H., August 31, 1936. pattonhq.com, the website The Patton Society. Note, this is a transcription, not scanned pages of the original study. Archive.org mirror version. Article: "General Patton – Gallipoli A Staff Study" by Lt.Gen. Ben Hodges Şubat [February] 23, 2017 geliboluyuanlamak.com.
  • Gallipoli by Alan Moorhead 1956. Pdf from nzsappers.org.nz. Also available 1956 edition and 1998 reprint edition, both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
  • Gallipoli by Robert Rhodes James 1965. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
  • Men of Gallipoli: The Dardanelles and Gallipoli Experience August 1914 to January 1916 by Peter Liddle 1976. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
Gallipoli 1915 : pens, pencils, and cameras at war by Peter H Liddle 1985. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
Some of my Experiences in the Great War by E Ashmead-Bartlett 1918 includes some chapters on Gallipoli from "Chapter V", page 77 Archive.org
The Uncensored Dardanelles by E Ashmead-Bartlett 1920 Archive.org.
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (Wikipedia) was an English war correspondent.
  • The Truth about the Dardanelles by Sydney A Moseley, Official Correspondent of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. 1916 Archive.org. For another book by Moseley, see First World War-Historical books online-Naval.
  • Russia, the Balkans and the Dardanelles by Granville Fortescue, Special Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph 1915 Archive.org
  • What of the Dardanelles? : an Analysis by Granville Fortescue 1915 Archive.org
  • The Dardanelles, their Story and their Significance in the Great War by the author of The Real Kaiser 3rd edition (enlarged) 1915 Archive.org. The author is stated elsewhere to be Ernest Charles Buley, an Australian journalist working in London.[20] The book has been described as a "propagandistic account"[21]
  • VCs of the First Word War: Gallipoli by Stephen Snelling 1999, first published 1995. There were 39 Victoria Cross awards made. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
  • Online books from The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism: Publications/Collections from Canakkale Wars, Gelibolu Historical Field Presidency (Çanakkale Savaşlari Gelibolu Tarihi Alan Başkanliği). Online books about Gallipoli in English, French, German, Turkish and Swedish languages. Turkish language website. Some of the English books are available elsewhere on this page including
    • Gallipoli Days and Nights by Trooper L. McCustra, Late of Peyton’s Division, published 1916. 2nd Mounted Division was a Yeomanry (Territorial Army Cavalry) Division

Diplomacy, news correspondents etc in Turkey

"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.

Medical

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.

Corps histories and accounts

War Diary — 13th Signal Company, Royal Engineers transcribed from the War Diary at the National Archives [UK]. From 5 July 1915 to 31 January 1916.
  • The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with a chapter on Gallipoli.
"Six Months in the Dardanelles" by Zachabona, page 141 Blackwood’s Magazine No 199, January-June 1916. Page 863 comment: Navy not responsible for blunder at Suvla Bay. Same edition Blackwood’s Magazine . Archive.org. The author has been identified as Robert Andrew Gibb, Army Service Corp, then Staff Serjeant Major, (SS/5246), (commissioned into the K.O.S.B. November 1915, subsequently killed in action at Gaza April 1917).[24] Gibb appears to have been part of a Base General Staff, mobilized at the Tower of London in February, which sailed from Avonmouth on the 'Dunluce Castle', arriving in Lemnos on 10 March 1915.[25]
  • Gallipoli Diary by Major John Graham Gillam, Army Service Corps. 1918 Archive.org
  • A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes a chapter on Gallipoli.
  • The Post Office of India in the Great War edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. "The Dardanelles, Salonika and Constantinople 1915-1919" page 103.

Regimental histories and accounts

Indian Army
Australian Army
The Desert Column. Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine by Ion L Idriess 1932 Archive.org. A transcribed version. Idriess was a member of the 5th Light Horse.
  • The Straits Impregnable by Sydney De Loghe (pseudonym of Sydney Loch, who fought at Gallipoli.[29]). 1917 Archive.org. The story of Gunner Lake, attached to Artillery Brigade Staff, First Australian Division, A I F. “...this book …is true”. Hoping to avoid military censorship, his publishers originally dubbed the book a novel, but later inserted a note saying the book was in fact true.
To Hell and Back : the banned account of Gallipoli by Sydney Loch Includes a bibliography by Susanna De Vries and Jake de Vries 2007. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
  • Gallipoli Diaries : the Anzacs' own story day by day by Jonathan King 2008, first published 2003. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
  • "The Anzac Landing" by Capt G D Mitchell. A series of articles appearing in Reveille, published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch, April-June 1935. Previously, but no longer available online, but perhaps may return. reveille.dlconsulting.com. April 1935, page 12 (digital 14); pages 46-47; May 1935, pages 18-19 (digital 20-21); June 1935, pages 18-19 (digital 20-21). Mitchell, George Deane (1894–1961) Australian Dictionary of Biography. Also see Western Front for more articles.
  • "The Landing : First Clash with Turks" by William Cridland, 1st F. Coy. Engrs., A.I.F Reveille March 1930 page 42 (digital page 44). Not currently available, but perhaps may return. reveille.dlconsulting.com
British Army
The Tenth (Irish) division in Gallipoli by Bryan Cooper 1918 Archive.org.
The History of the Suffolk Regiment 1914-1927 by Lieut.-Colonel C C R Murphy 1928 Archive.org. Includes Gallipoli.
Also available in a reprint edition[30], which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.
My Experiences in Gallipoli with the 6th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment by 10996 Private Paul Gaskell 1917. Transcribed. Archive.org. Gaskell was batman to the Commanding Officer of the 6th Battalion, Lieut-Col. Henry George Levinge. Gaskell self-published his experiences in 1917 in a 24-page booklet. From a transcribed account at loyalregiment.com, archived.
"Chaplain to the Forces in England and Gallipoli" page 121 Letters of Oswin Creighton, C.F., 1883-1918 edited by Louise Creighton 1920 Archive.org
The seven lives of Colonel Patterson : how an Irish lion hunter led the Jewish Legion to victory by Denis Brian 2008. Includes a chapter on the Zion Mule Corps. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
Article "The Zion Muleteers of Gallipoli (March 1915 - May 1916)" by Martin Sugarman. jewsfww.uk
Also see Fiction, below.
The First Five Hundred; being a historical sketch of the military operations of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in Gallipoli and on the Western Front during the Great War (1914-1918) by Richard Cramm. Catalogued as published 1921. Archive.org
  • With the Incomparable 29th by Major A.H. Mure TD 5th Battalion, The Royal Scots (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles). 1919 Archive.org.
  • Gallipoli Memories by Compton Mackenzie 1929 Archive.org. The first of four volumes of memoirs of his experiences serving with British Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First World War.
My Life and Times. Octave Five 1915-1923 by Compton Mackenzie 1966. Archive.org Texts to Borrow.
Compton Mackenzie Wikipedia. Also see Salonica and the Balkans (First World War).
French Army
  • Uncensored letters from the Dardanelles written to his English Wife by a French Medical Officer of Le Corps Expeditionnaire D’Orient [Joseph Marguerite Jean Vassal] 1916 Archive.org. Book No. 4 in the series Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War. Elsewhere it is stated he was born in Talence, Gironde in 1867, and belonged to the 6th Colonial regiment. His wife, née Gabrielle Candler, was responsible for part of the translation.[32]
  • "With the Foreign Legion in Gallipoli" by Ex-Sergeant A. R. Cooper [Adolphe Richard (Dick)]. greatwardifferent.com, now an archived website. This is an extract from The Man who Liked Hell : Twelve Years in the French Foreign Legion by ex-Sergeant A. R. Cooper, in collaboration with Sydney Tremayne, 1933, (elsewhere stated to have been ghost written from his notes, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000776161), as stated in the 1936 anthology Fifty amazing stories of the Great War, in which it also appeared.[33] Cooper also rewrote the 1933 book as March or Bust : Adventures in the Foreign Legion 1972 (BL UIN: BLL01009693296) which is considered more honest and valuable,[34] and wrote Born to Fight 1969 which is also an autobiography, (BL UIN: BLL01000776160). An account by Cooper is included in the 2016 publication In the Trenches: Those Who Were There edited by Rachel Bilton. A.R. (Dick) Cooper specialforcesroh.com, now archived. He served in Special Forces in WW2.
  • Les Archives de la Grande Guerre [et de l'histoire contemporaine] French language. In 17 volumes, which have been digitised on Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France in 13 digital files. Volume 17, the final volume, contains a Contents section which appears to cover all 17 Volumes, click on the icon for Table des matières. Then scroll down to "Front d'Orient" for a number of articles on the Balkans and the Dardanelles, where you can click through to the relevant articles (which may be in volumes other than Volume 17). For more details of this publication, see Western Front.
New Zealand Army
Turkish Army

In the Air

Naval

  • Gallipoli 1915 by Joseph Murray 1977. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. First published in 1965 as Gallipoli as I saw it. Joseph Murray, of Hood Battalion, Royal Navy Division died in 1994, aged 97, one of the longest lived survivors of Gallipoli. Elsewhere a comment has been seen that this is considered one of the best personal accounts of a soldier’s time at Gallipoli.
  • The Dardanelles; colour sketches from Gallipoli by Norman Wilkinson 1915 Archive.org Norman Wilkinson (artist) Wikipedia. He served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
  • On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division by Geoffrey Sparrow MC, and J N MacBean Ross MC Surgeons RN 1918 Archive.org. Includes Gallipoli and Salonica. The Division was under the authority of the Admiralty at Gallipoli.
Also see above "Official History of the Medical Unit of the Royal Naval Division..."
The Hawke Battalion. Some personal records ... 1914-1918 by Douglas Jerrold 1925. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
Page 131 Georgian Adventure The Autobiography of Douglas Jerrold 1937 Archive.org
  • History of the Great War based on official documents: Naval Operations by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett Volume II, (1921), Volume III (1923) Archive.org. Naval-History.net has transcribed editions which additionally contain maps from a separate case for Volumes II and III.
Revised second editions were published: Volume 2 1929, with maps in pocket available at the British Library UIN: BLL01015219377 ; Volume 3 1940, whose dustjacket cover states "Important revisions" including in respect of the Dardanelles and Mesopotamia.[36]. A facsimile reprint of the 2nd edition of Volume 3 was reprinted by Imperial War Museum/Battery Press in 1995 UIN: BLL01011725482 and it is possible that the reprints available from Naval & Military Press, which are in turn available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 contain the revised editions.
There is a footnote on page 1 which refers to "the massive and highly significant 'Mitchell Report' (Report of Committee Appointed to Investigate the Attacks delivered on and the Enemy Defences of the Dardanelles Straits, 1919)...printed in April 1921" . This Report is available at The National Archives, ADM 186/600, together with ADM 186/601 (Plates), ADM 186/602 (Maps).

Fiction

  • A Naval Venture: The War Story of an 
Armoured Cruiser by Fleet-Surgeon T. T. Jeans, R.N. 1917 Gutenberg.org. The Royal Navy during the Dardanelles operations. Fiction based on fact.
  • The Secret Battle by A P Herbert 1919. Archive.org. One of three novels published in 1919 praised for its convincing account of war, and recommended by Churchill.[38] The first part of the book is set at Gallipoli, the latter part on the Western Front. The Secret Battle Librivox audio book by A P Herbert. Archive.org. A. P. Herbert Wikipedia.
  • "Legion of Lost Souls" by Captain W J Blackledge. “A vivid firsthand story of the tragic and Terrible Campaign at Gallipoli-The Peninsula of Death” From the deeply engraved memory of Digger Craven, Australian Trooper" Appeared in issues of the weekly magazine Liberty v13 n42 [1936-10-17] onwards.
Part 1, part 2 not available online; Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
Likely to be the text, or an abridged version, of Peninsula of Death, as told to W. J. Blackledge by Digger Craven. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1937, which is accordingly also classified as fiction, although elsewhere classified as bibliography.[39], and also see comments on page 4 of ‘’The Listening Post’’ 15 March 1937 (RSL WA) …"appears to be a novel whose author delights in much sordid detail" from the Prime Minister’s Department. For a book about Digger Craven at a later time, see North West Frontier Campaigns - Historical books online - Fiction and for more about the author see Mesopotamia Campaign - Historical books online - Fiction.

References

  1. ↑ "Gallipoli Campaign" Wikipedia. Refer External links, above.
  2. ↑ Discovery catalogue
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ stiletto_33853. Ancestry vs National Archives Great War Forum 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2020. Ancestry diaries may have large parts (many months) missing compared to TNA files
  5. ↑ MrSwan. Ancestry war diaries Great War Forum 17 December 2017. Google cache version, archived.
  6. ↑ Gallipoli Diaries edited by the late Martin Gillott, publisher Great War Diaries. amazon.co.uk
  7. ↑ Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914-18 War
  8. ↑ Over the Front, The League of WWI Aviation Historians
  9. ↑ Cross and Cockade International
  10. ↑ b3rn. Avro ? at Imbros Great War Forum 21 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  11. ↑ Umeu et al. The French at Gallipoli Great War Forum 30 August 2018 et al. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  12. ↑ PassTHE knowledge by Akhi Soufyan
  13. ↑ Gallipoli Association page; Mapping the Front DVD Gallipoli: Western Front Association. You may wish to check that the DVD is compatible with your computer/device.
  14. ↑ Notes on the Turkish Army, with a short vocabulary of Turkish words and phrases. 1915. Naval & Military Press reprint.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 The Struggle for the Dardanelles: The Memoirs of a German Staff Officer in Ottoman Service by Major Erich Prigge, translated, and with an Introduction, by Philip Rance 2017. Sample pages, Google Books. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01016984347 . Prigge was an adjutant to Marshal Liman von Sanders, the German commander-in-chief of the Ottoman forces in the Dardanelles.
  16. ↑ Greenwoodman. Official Inquiry into Conduct of WW1 Great War Forum 19 June 2006. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  17. ↑ Report of the Committee on the Lessons of the Great War Naval & Military Press reprint edition.
  18. ↑ turnerdonovan.com catalogue item, archived.
  19. ↑ Notes And Comments On The Dardanelles Campaign by A. Kearsey. Naval & Military Press reprint.
  20. ↑ Buley, Ernest Charles (1869–1933) Australian Dictionary of Biography
  21. ↑ Page 59 ‪The Dardanelles Campaign, 1915: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography‬ by Fred R. Van Hartesveldt Google Books
  22. ↑ frev. Norwegian Matron on Indian Hospital Ship Great War Forum 3 October 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  23. ↑ michaeldr. Royal Engineers soldier abandoned in Gallipoli Great War Forum 29 June 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  24. ↑ Bryn et al. American captured in Turkish forces, Helles, 28 June 1915 Great War Forum 6 June 2020 onwards. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  25. ↑ Page from Chapter 2, Grasping Gallipoli: Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915 by Peter Chasseaud, Peter Doyle. Google Books.
  26. ↑ jay26thBn. An oldie but a... Great War Forum 9 July 1921. Retrieved 11 July 1921.
  27. ↑ See Chapter 5 "“Sapper Stephen Kelley – 'Water Wizard' of Gallipoli: the man who (supposedly) saved an army" from Bully Beef & Balderdash Volume 2: More Myths of the AIF Examined and Debunked by Graham Wilson 2017. Sample pages Google Books
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  29. ↑ June 2019 catalogue turnerdonovan.com.
  30. ↑ History of the Lincolnshire Regiment 1914-1918 Naval & Military Press
  31. ↑ Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914-1918 Naval & Military Press reprint.
  32. ↑ "A Bibliography of Great War Medicine" vlib.us.
  33. ↑ other ranker. Fifty amazing stories of the Great War Great War Forum 1 April 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  34. ↑ Digital page PT846 from Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935 by Martin Windrow. Google Books
  35. ↑ smclaren ANZAC Cove Evacuation 19/12/1915 ... one NZEF Soldiers Account Great War Forum 19 December 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  36. ↑ MartH. Rarest book? post 869, page 35 Great War Forum 12 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  37. ↑ Navy In The Dardanelles Campaign Naval & Military Press
  38. ↑ Pages 51-52 English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918–39 by John Onions. Google Books
  39. ↑ Page 56, item 164 The Dardanelles Campaign, 1915: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography by Fred R van Hartesvelt Google Books

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