Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 7/4/5
Title
Copy first page of instructions for GOC MEF, 1915, with related correspondence, 1966
Date(s)
- 1966 (Creation)
- 1915 Mar 13 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1p and 2 letters
Scope and content
Photocopy of first page of typescript 'Instructions for General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Expeditionary Force', produced by FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, and outlining the strategic objectives of the Dardanelles Campaign, with manuscript amendments by Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF). 1p (Original is in The National Archives). With associated correspondence between Mary Forbes Shield and Daphne H Gifford, Public Record Office, 11-12 Mar 1966.