Item HAMILTON, ISM 7/9/7 - Copy letter from Charles Bean to General Sir William Birdwood, Apr 1919, about Bean's research as an Australian Official Historian

Typed copy of letter [to Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Bt] from Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Official Historian of the Australian Imperial Force, regarding Bean's recent visit to Gallipoli, including description of desecration of Allied graves, and work of Imperial War Graves Commission in identifying graves; structures of Turkish trenches; Turkish military opinion on the success of the ANZAC action at Lone Pine, 6 Aug 1915, and deception of the Allied evacuation. 5pp With memorandum by Bean, comprising answers by the Turkish General Staff to his questions relating to their expectations of initial Allied landing sites on Gallipoli; Turkish units involved in opposing the landings of 25 Apr 1915, the Turkish offensive of 19 May 1915 at Anzac, and during operations at Sari Bair and Suvla Bay, Aug 1915; Turkish expectations of an Allied evacuation; German units attached to the Turkish forces. 11pp (Three copies)