[Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] Extracts from ANZAC – Suvla Evacuation File

Places	Europe: Greece, Aegean Islands, Imbros Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Anzac Area (Gallipoli) Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Cape Helles Area, Cape Helles Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Suvla Bay Area
Accession Number	RCDIG0000109
Collection number	3DRL/3376 11/15 File 7 PART B
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	File
Item count	7
Object type	Papers
Physical description	26 Image/s captured
Maker	Birdwood, William Riddell Various
Date made	1915
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions	Digital format and content protected by copyright.

Places

Accession Number

RCDIG0000109

Collection number

3DRL/3376 11/15 File 7 PART B

Collection type

Digitised Collection

Record type

File

Item count

Object type

Papers

Physical description

26 Image/s captured

Maker

Birdwood, William Riddell
Various

Date made

1915

Conflict

First World War, 1914-1918

Copying Provisions

Digital format and content protected by copyright.

This file contains letters and telegrams about the evacuation from ANZAC Cove and Suvla that were sent and received by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood between 1 December 1915 and 17 December 1915. Also mentioned in this file are plans for Helles before evacuation. This file contains correspondence to and from General Sir Archibald James Murray as Chief of Imperial General Staff, Sir Frederick William Stopford as General Officer commanding 9th Corps (ANZAC), General Sir Walter Pipon Braithwaite as Chief of the General Staff Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and Major S S Butler. This file was part of Item 1 on Birdwood's list of files submitted as evidence to the Dardanelles Commission. This original list can be found in 3DRL/3376 11/15 File 1.
This file contains:
Letter from Birdwood to [Lieutenant General Archibald James Murray], 1 December 1915
"Instructions to General Officers commanding 9th Corps and Australian & New Zealand Army Corps" written by Lieutenant Colonel Cecil Faber Aspinall, 10 December 1915
Dardanelles Army Order No 1 issued by Lieutenant Colonel Cecil Faber Aspinall, 12 December 1915
Letter from Major B R Moberly to [Lieutenant General Frederick William Stopford], 13 December 1915
Letter from Birdwood to [Major General Walter Pipon Braithwaite], 14 December 1915
Letter from Birdwood to [Major General Walter Pipon Braithwaite], 17 December 1915
"Special precautions at Imbros to prevent leakage of information", issued by Major S S Butler, [c. November - December 1915]