Dardanelles campaign (1915-1916)
Found in 688 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 20 Sep 1920
(Untitled), 09 Nov 1920
Letter from [WSC] to Walter Long [later Lord Long] asserting that the conclusions of the report on the Dardanelles will encourage a negative attitude in the Navy and that if it is published so should all other relevant documents. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 15 Nov 1920
Letter from Walter Long [later Lord Long] (Admiralty) to WSC stating that he intends to leave the consideration of the report [on the Dardanelles defences] to his Naval Staff and does not intend to publish it.
(Untitled), 05 Dec 1920
Letter from George Lambert [later Lord Lambert] (Ferne, Donhead, Salisbury, [Wiltshire]) to WSC explaining that he wants the biographer of Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] to avoid reviving old controversies and advising WSC to be careful about what he publishes. Praises WSC's work at the Admiralty but says he was "headstrong" over the Dardanelles.
(Untitled), 13 Nov 1915
Letter from Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (17 Park Lane, London) to WSC blaming the military authorities, in particular General Sir Ian Hamilton, for the failure of the Dardanelles campaign. Signed typescript.
(Untitled), 26 Apr [1920]
Letter from Sir George Arthur (23, the Boltons, [London]) to WSC thanking him for what he wrote about his chief and recalling that Lord Kitchener did not want to break off the attack on the Dardanelles [Turkey] because he believed that any semblance of a victory by eastern peoples over western ones would lead to trouble.
(Untitled), 07 Jun 1920
Letter from [WSC] to 2nd Lord Esher [earlier Reginald Brett] arguing that the Antwerp expedition had an important effect on where the western front line was established and condemning the "criminal blindness" which prevented the naval and military authorities uniting to make the Dardanelles campaign a success. Argues that the assembly of any sort of army at all to meet Britain's post-war commitments was a notable achievement. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 13 Oct 1930
Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later Lord Keyes] (Admiralty House, Portsmouth, [Hampshire]) to WSC recalling a talk he had with Vice-Admiral Paul Guepratte at the time of the Dardanelles campaign.
(Untitled), 06 Oct 1930
Letter in French from Vice-Admiral Paul Guepratte (5 Rue de Neptune, Brest, Finisterre, [France]) to WSC thanking him for his reply to Guepratte's letter criticising his article on the Dardanelles campaign [see CHAR 2/169/76-77 and 79-82] and regretting the vehemence of his first letter.
(Untitled), 24 Sep 1930
Letter from [WSC] to Vice-Admiral Paul Guepratte (5 Rue de Neptune, Brest, Finisterre, [France]) responding to his critical letter [see CHAR 2/169/79-82] by inviting him to read volume two of "The World Crisis" for the full story of the naval attack on the Dardanelles and asserting that the telegram sent by Vice-Admiral John de Robeck on 10 May 1915 invited a negative answer to the question of renewing the naval attack on the straits. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 17 Sep 1930
Letter in French from Vice-Admiral Paul Guepratte (5 Rue de Neptune, Brest, Finisterre, [France]) to WSC criticising a recent article by WSC on the Dardanelles campaign in which WSC asserted that the telegram sent by Vice-Admiral John de Robeck on 10 May 1915 invited a negative answer to the question of renewing the naval attack on the straits.
(Untitled), 28 Jul 1933
Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (Tingewick House, Tingewick, Buckinghamshire) to WSC describing his proposed account of the Dardanelles campaign and asking to see WSC to discuss it.
(Untitled), 05 Aug 1933
Letter from [WSC] to [Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, later 1st Lord Keyes] approving [a foreword to the chapter from Keyes's naval memoirs on the Dardanelles campaign]. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 08 Aug 1933
Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (Tingewick House, Buckinghamshire] to WSC describing how he criticises Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] in his account of the Dardanelles campaign and how he treats the Dogger Bank action.
(Untitled), 07 Aug 1933
Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (Tingewick House, Buckinghamshire] discussing Keyes's account of the Dardanelles campaign and suggesting that his brother [Sir Terence Keyes] could supply from India valuable information and suggestions for criticism of the White Paper.
(Untitled), 11 Aug 1933
Letter from [WSC] to Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] asserting that Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] deserted him after having given his full support to the Dardanelles campaign. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 17 Aug 1933
Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (Tingewick House, Buckinghamshire) to WSC on his account of the Dardanelles campaign, including his correction of inaccuracies in Vice-Admiral Cecil Usborne's "Smoke on the Horizon" and his criticism of the role of Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] and Duckworth.
(Untitled), 11 Sep 1933
Letter from [WSC] to Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] giving his permission to publish a telegram of his sent during the Dardanelles campaign in which he talked of two or three hundred casualties as being "a moderate price". Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 12 Sep 1933
Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (Tingewick House, Buckinghamshire) to WSC describing how he argues in his account of the Dardanelles campaign that a battle to force the Narrows would have resulted in victory for the Allies and mentioning that he is staying with Vice-Admiral Harry Godfrey, who is a supporter of his and WSC's.
(Untitled), 05 Nov 1933
Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (Tingewick House, Buckinghamshire) to WSC asking him to read his chapters on the Dardanelles campaign, reporting that Butterworth & Co have agreed to publish his naval memoirs in two volumes and asking WSC to help him "to put that old villain [Lord Fisher, earlier Sir John Fisher] in his proper place in history".
(Untitled), 14 Oct 1933
Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (Tingewick House, Buckinghamshire) to WSC describing the next two chapters in his account of the Dardanelles campaign which cover WSC's efforts to get Rear-Admiral John de Robeck to adhere to the naval attack.
(Untitled), 29 Dec 1933
Letter from [WSC] to Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] giving detailed suggestions as to how he should treat the resignation of Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] in his account of theDardanelles campaign. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 14 Oct 1915
Page from the Times including marked article describing the naval attack in the Dardanelles as "a legitimate war gamble". [Retained in connection with the proceedings against Lord Alfred Douglas arising from his claim that WSC misreported the Battle of Jutland to allow Jewish interests led by Sir Ernest Cassel to profit on the stock market].
(Untitled), [Oct] [1924]
Letter from T Taylor Heywood, journalist (11 Geneva Terrace, Rochdale, [Lancashire]) to WSC asserting that unless he explains who was responsible for the failure of the Dardanelles campaign many young Conservatives like Heywood will leave the party because it is allowing WSC back into its ranks.
(Untitled), 06 Dec 1925
Letter from Sir Roger Keyes [later Lord Keyes] (Admiralty House, Malta) to WSC thanking him for writing, reporting on his inspection of aircraft carriers and his cruise in the Aegean, referring to Cecil Aspinall's [later Cecil Aspinall-Oglander] history of the [Dardanelles] campaign and to his (Keyes') polo ponies.