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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 [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2488564 ADM 186/601].
:The historian Arthur J Marder considers that this report is "highly significant", see [[Gallipoli#Naval|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'',<ref> [https://www.overthefront.com Over the Front, The League of WWI Aviation Historians]</ref> 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|Royal Air Force - External links]], including Imperial War Museums).
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b16218?urlappend=%3Bseq=124 "Chapter VI" p 110] to page 182 ''We Dive at Dawn'' by Lt.-Com. Kenneth Edwards 1941. Submarines at the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmara, late 1914 to early 1916. HathiTrust Digital Library.
*[http://www.naval-history.net/WW1Books-Sources-Navy_Records-Naval%20Review.htm World War 1 at Sea - Contemporary Accounts: ''The Navy Records Society'' and ''The Naval Review''] Scroll down to Part 2, ''Naval Review'' letter D “Dardanelles & Gallipoli”, then access the articles mentioned in the ''Naval Review'' Archives. naval-history.net
*[https://archive.org/details/fromdardanellest0000mard/page/n15/mode/2up "The Dardanelles Revisited: Further Thoughts on the Naval Prelude"] scroll to Chapter One, page 1 ''From the Dardanelles to Oran : studies of the Royal Navy in war and peace, 1915-1940'' by Arthur J Marder 1974 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Marder Arthur Marder] Wikipedia: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 186/601.
====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/secretbattle00herbuoft/page/n5 ''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.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4tmvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA51 Pages 51-52] ''English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918–39'' by John Onions. Google Books</ref> The first part of the book is set at Gallipoli, the latter part on the [[Western Front]]. [https://archive.org/details/secretbattle_rm_librivox ''The Secret Battle'' Librivox audio book] by A P Herbert. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._Herbert A. P. Herbert] Wikipedia.
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