Item GODLEY 3/20-46 - Letters to the Godley family, 1915-[1949], from Field Marshal Lord Birdwood, on topics including Gallipoli, ANZAC troops, Turkey and France

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GODLEY 3/20-46

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Letters to the Godley family, 1915-[1949], from Field Marshal Lord Birdwood, on topics including Gallipoli, ANZAC troops, Turkey and France

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  • 1915 - [1949] (Creation)

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61pp

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Letters to Godley and Louisa Marion Godley, Lady Godley, from FM William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes, notably offering his thanks to Godley and his wife for their work in Egypt and Gallipoli during 1915, and his pleasure that Godley is to succeed him in commanding ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps); his promotion to command 5 Army on the Western Front and his regrets at leaving ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), 1918; numerous reminiscences of the period spent commanding troops at Gallipoli; discussion of reductions in the Indian army, to be created by the amalgamation of various regiments, and the political and economic repercussions, 1921-1922; the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne by the Turkish Republican Government led by Turkish Gen Mustapha Kemal Pasha, 1923; discussion of the character of Raymond Poincaré, French Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the French military occupation of the Ruhr, Germany, 1923. 61pp.

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The correspondence between Godley and Col Sir Clive Wigram is held at the National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington, and may be consulted on microfilm at the Centre.

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