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- 1914 - 1917 (Creation)
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Papers relating to the Dardanelles Campaign Feb 1915 including extract from Aston's diary 5 Jun 1914 entitled 'impressions at Admiralty during past year' which includes comments on Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty and the role of the Committee of Imperial Defence; extract from Hansard 20 Mar 1917 which includes the statement by Asquith on the Royal Commission Report on the Dardanelles Campaign annotated with comments by Aston; notes by Aston on evidence to the Dardanelles Commission, Oct 1916; notes by Aston on the lecture given by Maj Gen Guy Payan Dawnay on the plans for the Dardanelles Campaign; notes by Aston entitled 'Value of direct and indirect fire from ships against forts'; typescript entitled '"Experts" and the conduct of war'; typescript 'Appreciation made in February 1915' on the strategic importance of the western front; press cuttings of extracts from Churchill's war memoirs which relate to the Dardanelles and responses to the memoirs; correspondence between Aston and AF Sir William Henry May, Prince Louis Francis of Battenberg, George Sydenham Clarke, 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe, George Clement Tryon, MP relating to the Dardanelles campaign; letter requesting Aston to give evidence to the Dardanelles Commission, 1917 on direct and indirect fire from ships; typescript summary of The Dardanelles Commission: First Report (Part I - Origins and Inception), (HMSO, London, 1917). 1 file
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The originals are held at the Royal Marines Museum, Eastney. The balance of the collection at Eastney consists of further newspaper cuttings relating to army training reports by Aston, 1921-1925 and 1933, and reviews of his books; further writings, 'Four