Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 8/2/34
Title
Text of evidence given by Rear Admiral Roger Keyes to the Dardanelles Commission, May 1917, on topics including water supply, medical arrangements and evacuation
Date(s)
- 1917 May 16 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
95pp, 3 copies
Scope and content
Typed copy of evidence of R Adm Roger John Brownlow Keyes, former Naval Chief of Staff during the Gallipoli Campaign, given to the Dardanelles Commission in reply to questions 27313-27515, mainly relating to his proposals of Aug 1915 urging resumption of naval operations to force the Dardanelles; deliberations with the Admiralty over evacuation of the peninsula; inadequacies of medical arrangements; memoranda by Keyes on naval transport and water supplies. Three identical copies. 95pp