(Untitled), 05 Jul 1916

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/74/17-19

Scope and Contents

Letter from Major-General Charles Callwell to General Sir Ian Hamilton arguing that correspondence and telegrams relating to operations in the Dardanelles after Hamilton's successful landings cannot be published at present because they show the late Lord Kitchener in a bad light. Asserts that it should be made clear in the papers laid before Parliament that Hamilton's initial orders were based on the erroneous assumption that the Turks would not put up much resistance to the forcing of the straits. Callwell remembers telling Lord Kitchener and Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] that the straits would not be forced unless Bulgaria and Greece joined on the Allied side. Mentions that he has turned down a post in charge of semi-official communiques on the Western Front and mentions the latest Allied offensive there. Typescript copy.

Dates

Creation: 05 Jul 1916

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