Item HAMILTON, ISM 7/1/8 - Correspondence of Vice Admiral John de Robeck, Mar-Aug 1915, relating to the Dardanelles campaign

Correspondence of V Adm John Michael de Robeck, including telegraph signal, 18 Mar 1915, from de Robeck to the Admiralty, reporting naval bombardment on the Dardanelles forts and loss of RN battleships HMS IRRESISTIBLE and HMS OCEAN, and French battleship BOUVET; letters, 18-19 Mar 1915, from de Robeck and R Adm Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, Senior Naval Officer, Mudros, to Hamilton, regarding the losses to the Allied fleet from mines; letter, 24 Mar 1915, from de Robeck to Hamilton, deprecating the insistence of the British authorities to hurry the Allied offensives in the Dardanelles; typed copy of telegram no 140, from Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP, First Lord of the Admiralty, to de Robeck, with appreciation of situation and urging de Robeck to consider renewal of naval attack, 25 Mar 1915; typed copy of telegram 278 from de Robeck to Churchill, suggesting that a combined operation should be considered, 26 Mar 1915; telegram from Hamilton to de Robeck, suggesting continuation of naval bombardment of forts while plans were made for landing troops [undated, 30 Mar 1915]; telegram from de Robeck, 23 Apr 1915, informing Hamilton that all arrangements had been made for landings on Gallipoli to proceed on 25 Apr 1915; telegram from Hamilton requesting de Robeck's decision to proceed or delay the Suvla Bay landings due to climatic conditions, 5 Aug 1915. 1 file, 19 items