Key Information
Reference code
ROBERTSON, WR 3/2/29
Title
General Staff memo, 22 Nov 1915, on operations in the Dardanelles
Date(s)
- 1915 Nov 22 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
12pp
Scope and content
Printed General Staff memorandum recommending action to be taken in Gallipoli, including the views of Lt Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood, Commander Dardanelles Army, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, and temporary Gen Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, Commander in Chief, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and a summary of arguments for and against evacuation of the peninsula. 12pp.