Fragmentary notes by WSC on the planning of the Dardanelles campaign.

Fragmentary notes by WSC on the planning of the Dardanelles campaign.

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.

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".

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.

Notes of figures by WSC having some bearing on the Dardanelles campaign.

Notes by WSC on the report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry.

Official report of House of Commons debates including application for a debate on the excisions made in the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry report.

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.

Letter from David Davis (House of Commons) to WSC enclosing notes on war policy in the Balkans to be discussed by the Liberal War Committee [see CHAR 2/90/12-24]. Signed typescript.

Notes [to be discussed by the Liberal War Committee] on the measures necessary for the assumption by the Allies of the offensive on the Salonica front in the Balkans. Sent with CHAR 2/90/11.

Notes [to be discussed by the Liberal War Committee] arguing that since Britain has the strongest interests among the Allies in supporting Serbia a British or a Serbian general should be placed in overall command on the Salonica front, and considering the disastrous increase in German power in the east which would result from the surrender of Serbia. Sent with CHAR 2/90/11.

"Reasons for the appointment of a British general in command of the Salonika expedition." Written by D[avid] D[avis] for discussion by the Liberal War Committee. Sent with CHAR 2/90/11.

Notes [by David Davis for discussion by the Liberal War Committee] arguing for the appointment of the Serbian Field Marshall Misitch to the command of the Allied forces on the Salonica front and for the overhaul of the British means of obtaining intelligence from there. Sent with CHAR 2/90/11.

Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] (36 Berkeley Square, [London]) to WSC reporting that he has heard that WSC is to go to Scotland with David Lloyd George and is involved in a conference on a British military advance along the Belgian coast in conjunction with a naval action. Asserts that "success depends on smoke and gas from the sea." Typescript copy at CHAR 2/92/22.

Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] to WSC on: the danger that WSC might hamper his "Great Resolve" [the plan for an offensive on the Belgian coast] by associating Fisher with it, even though Fisher himself feels very fit for his age; the aircraft, mine-laying facilities, submarines and other vessels required for the attack; the need for an immediate "Big Change" in Admiralty building policy. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/92/40-41.

Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] (Ferne, Donhead, Salisbury, [Wiltshire]) to WSC stating that he will be glad to see him "at this tragic moment with the Germans only a few miles from Amiens [France] and so threatening the starvation of London by stopping the Channel traffic". Deplores the fact that the Royal Navy is still to be kept "in cotton wool" and announces his intention of speaking about it in the House of Lords.

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.

Continuation of a detailed report to the secretary of the Admiralty by a member of the Royal Naval Air Service Armoured Car Division (Kozova, Austria) on the effects of the March revolution in Russia on Russian military discipline and support for the war, and the operations of the Armoured Car Division in Russia against Austrian and German forces, including details of casualties. Typescript copy.

Letter in French from Franchet d'Esperey (Perros par Bubry, Morbihan, [Franche]) to Jacques Balsan reporting that in Constantinople in 1919 Djevad Pasha, a Turkish commander, had told him that the forces defending the Dardanelles were in such a state that had the Royal Navy continued its attack it would have succeeded. Sent with CHAR 2/153/15-16.

Official history of the Gallipoli campaign by Cecil Aspinall-Oglander [earlier Cecil Aspinall]: chapter VI: "Final preparations at Mudros" Typescript draft.

Letter from Brigadier-General James Edmonds (Historical Section (Military Branch), Committee of Imperial Defence) to Edward Marsh suggesting changes to the official history of the Gallipoli campaign by Cecil Aspinall-Oglander [earlier Cecil Aspinall].

Letter from [Edward Marsh] to Brigadier-General James Edmonds reporting that WSC does not see the need to ask Cecil Aspinall-Oglander [earlier Cecil Aspinall] to amend his official history of the Gallipoli campaign and wishes Edmonds to let him have the passages to which he (Edmonds) takes exception. Carbon typescript copy.

Note from Edward Marsh to [WSC] explaining that Brigadier-General James Edmonds's criticisms of the official history of the Gallipoli campaign are on small details and suggesting that history sub-committee get him to discuss them with Cecil Aspinall-Oglander [earlier Cecil Aspinall], the author.