Dardanelles campaign (1915-1916)
Found in 674 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), [21] [Aug] [1915]
Memorandum [by WSC] describing a plan whereby 3 or 4 monitors may be got through the Dardanelles into the Sea of Marmara and, with protection from submarines, cut Turkish communications across the Bulair Isthmus. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), [26] [Oct] [1915]
Notes by WSC (10 Downing Street) suggesting that between the 15th and the 31st of December the Russians should pass through Romania to attack the Austro-German communications with Constantinople [Turkey], that a renewed attempt be made to force the Dardanelles and that the French army should advance from Greece to threaten the Bulgarian flank. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), [26] [Oct] [1915]
Notes by WSC (10 Downing Street) [to Lord Kitchener] headed "a vision" suggesting that Baghdad [Iraq] could be captured, the Dardanelles forced and Constantinople occupied in the coming December and January. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 03 Jan 1915 - Sep 1916
"Naval operations in the Dardanelles. Admiralty telegrams. January 3-May 29, 1915." Printed in Sep 1916.
(Untitled), 13 Sep 1916
Letter from (Admiralty Transport Division) enclosing lists of the transports which conveyed the Royal Naval and military divisions to the Mediterranean for the Dardanelles operations [see CHAR 2/88/45-53].
(Untitled), [Apr] [1915] - [Aug] [1915]
Lists of transports conveying the Royal Naval and military divisions to the Mediterranean for the Dardanelles operations. Sent with CHAR 2/88/44.
(Untitled), 04 Mar 1915
(Untitled), 20 Dec 1906 - Feb 1907
"The possibility of a joint naval and military attack upon the Dardanelles. I. Memorandum by the General Staff. II. Note by the Director of Naval Intelligence." Written 20 Dec 1906. Printed for the Committee of Imperial Defence, Feb 1907.
(Untitled), 01 Mar 1915
"Committee of Imperial Defence. The War. After the Dardanelles. The next steps. Notes by the Secretary." [Sir Maurice Hankey].
(Untitled), [1916]
Notes defending General Sir Ian Hamilton's conduct in the Dardanelles.
(Untitled), [1916]
Fragmentary notes by WSC on [stages in the planning process for the Dardanelles campaign].
(Untitled), [1916]
List by WSC of documents relating to the planning of the Dardanelles campaign.
(Untitled), [1916]
Fragmentary notes by WSC on the planning of the Dardanelles campaign.
(Untitled), [1916]
Fragmentary notes by WSC on the planning of the Dardanelles campaign.
(Untitled), [1917]
Statement by [WSC] to [the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry] arguing that far more resources were squandered on the ineffective offensives on the Western Front in 1916 than would have been needed to attain the much more valuable objective of forcing the passage of the Dardanelles. Annotated typescript draft.
(Untitled), [08] [Sep] [1916]
Statement by WSC (referring to himself in the third person) justifying his role in the Dardanelles campaign, arguing that the plan for a purely naval attack abandoned prematurely in favour of a joint naval and military attack which could only be undertaken in unfavourable circumstances. Draft in WSC's hand headed "notes as a guide".
(Untitled), 25 Mar 1915
Letter from Lord Kitchener (War Office) to WSC stating that preparations for land operations [at the Dardanelles] are continuing and hoping that the Navy will engage the forts vigorously so that the Turks expend their ammunition. Typescript copy annotated by WSC for inclusion in a publication.
(Untitled), c 1916
Notes of figures by WSC having some bearing on the Dardanelles campaign.
(Untitled), [1917]
Notes by WSC on the report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry.
(Untitled), 14 Mar 1917
Official report of House of Commons debates including application for a debate on the excisions made in the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry report.
(Untitled), 14 Aug 1915
Extract from an article from the military correspondent of the Times blaming "the Higher Direction of the War in London" for the failure of the Dardanelles campaign. Typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/90/1.
(Untitled), [1915]
Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] to WSC explaining his role in the [Dardanelles campaign] and asserting that "the outside world is quite certain that I have pushed you and not you me" and that [Herbert Asquith, later Lord Oxford and Asquith] is the only one who knows that the opposite is true. Typescript copy incorrectly dated 12 April 1918.
(Untitled), Apr 1917
Articles from the National Review by Leo Maxse attacking ministers, including WSC, whom he believes gravely underestimated the German threat before the war and have been too sanguine since it broke out, defending Lord Kitchener against his critics, and considering what he (Maxse) sees as the damning verdict on the Government of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry.
(Untitled), [Apr] [1917]
Article from a periodical on the grave shortcomings of the Government revealed by the report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry.
(Untitled), Apr 1917
Article from the National Review by "a Naval Correspondent" entitled "the end of the Fisher legend" considering the report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry. Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher].