Item HAMILTON, ISM 7/4/10 - Copy extracts from the papers of Captain Guy Dawnay, MEF HQ, Mar 1915 - Jan 1916, on the progress of the Gallipoli campaign

Typescript extracts from the papers of Capt Guy Payan Dawnay, General Staff, General Headquarters, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, including letters to his wife regarding progress of the Dardanelles Campaign, Hamilton's recall and the arrival of Gen Sir Charles Carmichael Monro; Dawnay's memorandum for the Imperial General Staff on the strength of Turkish forces and prospects of a renewed offensive at Suvla and ANZAC, Sep 1915; his diary while in London, 10 Sep-3 Oct 1915, including his meetings with FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rt Hon Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister, Lt Gen Sir James Wolfe Murray, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Maj Gen Charles Edward Callwell, Director of Military Operations, Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law MP. 1 file (Original papers are held by the Imperial War Museum)