Series 11: Correspondence and other papers 1915 - 1930 related to the Dardanelles Campaign

This series comprises correspondence, telegrams, original orders, operation reports, commission reports and newspaper cuttings related to the Dardanelles campaign. The correspondents include Colonel Wigram, Lord Kitchener, General Brulard, General Hamilton, Sir Maurice Hankey, General Maxwell and General Godley.
Items of note in this series include several copies of the report by the Royal Commission investigating the Dardanelles Campaign during 1916 and documents related to the request from the Australian Defence Department that Australians serving under Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood should be organised in Australian formations and under Australian officers.
Also included in this series are documents relating to the Boer War, the Western Front battles of Bapaume and Bullecourt, addresses given by Birdwood and forewords written by Birdwood for various publications. File 8/2 should also be checked for related material. Three file listings are located in 11/15 File 1 which provide context to the original filing system that was applied to these records and also how they were originally used. The first of these is a listing compiled by Birdwood that collates all files related to the Dardanelles Campaign. The second list is a content list of all files prepared as evidence for the Dardanelles Commission. The final list has a provenance that could not be identified but resembles a packing list.

• Telegrams and letters received by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood regarding Gallipoli, 1915
• Addresses and accounts by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood 1916 to 1917 - church parade, submission for the Lord Kitchener Memorial Book and the opening of a building in Ismailia
• Copies of letters written by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood to Lord Clive Wigram, 1915-1919
• Dardanelles and Mesopotamia Commissions Reports and press comments, [Part 1, 1915-1930]
• Outline of prospective operations at Dardanelles on receipt of original orders in February 1915
• D/O Letters
• Correspondence between Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood and General Jean Marie Joseph Armand Brulard
• Correspondence between Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood and Colonel Oswald Arthur Gerald Fitzgerald
• Correspondence to General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton
• Correspondence from General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton to Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood
• Correspondence with Sir Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1915-1916
• Correspondence with Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1915-1916
• Telegrams between Lord Kitchener and Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood – Dardanelles Operations
• Despatches – Dardanelles Army – 28/12/15 and 20/1/16 and Order of Battle – Mediterranean Expeditionary Force
• Copies of memorandum to: Secretary, Dardanelles Commission [Mr Edward Grimwood Mears]
• Dardanelles and Mesopotamia Commission Reports and press clippings [Part 2, 1916 - 1917]
• Correspondence with Generals Davies, Byng and Godley re operations for evacuation [and] correspondence with GHQ, MEF, re reported conference with Admiral without sanction of C-in-C
• Miscellaneous papers - Dardanelles operations (official)
• List of Naval Call Signals - Dardanelles and Composition of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
• Correspondence with War Office and other superior authorities – mainly cables re. organisation of corps in Egypt and appointment of General Birdwood as corps commander
• [Incoming] cablegrams between General Birdwood, General Maxwell, Admiral Carden and Lord Kitchener - reconnaissance and naval bombardment at Dardanelles
• [Outgoing] cablegrams between Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood, General Maxwell, Admiral Carden and Lord Kitchener – reconnaissance and naval bombardment at Dardanelles
• [Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] February reconnaissance of Peninsula
• [Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] ANZAC landing
• [Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] Turkish attack on ANZAC position on 18/19 May – Liman von Sanders
• [Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] Turkish attack on 31 May - at instigation of Enver Pasha
• [Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] Operations during August
• [Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] Urgent need for reinforcements and provision of canteen
• [Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] Relative positions of 9th Corps Right Flank and ANZAC left
• [Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] Evacuation Operations
• [Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] Extracts from Anzac - Suvla Evacuation file
• [Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] Extracts from ANZAC – Suvla Evacuation File
• [Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] Extracts from Suvla [Helles] Evacuation File
• [Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] Extracts from Helles Evacuation File
• Forewords, congratulatory messages, etc. Public speeches, address to cadets [Part 2]
• Forewords, congratulatory messages, etc. Public speeches, address to cadets [Part 3]
• Miscellaneous papers on ANZAC and the war, 1915-1920
• Letter by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood regarding the last man to leave Gallipoli