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Accession Number | RCDIG0000112 |
Collection number | 3DRL/3376 11/16 |
Collection type | Digitised Collection |
Record type | File |
Item count | 16 |
Object type | Papers |
Physical description | 17 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. |
Forewords, congratulatory messages, etc. Public speeches, address to cadets [Part 2]
Birdwood, Lord William Riddell (Field Marshal, b.1865 - d.1951)
- Series 11: Correspondence and other papers 1915 - 1930 related to the Dardanelles Campaign
< Previous Record | Next Record >This file contains telegrams, letters and memorandums related to the landing at Gallipoli, the death of General Bridges, King’s Birthday greetings, and the departure of Admiral Thursby from Gallipoli. Some of the correspondence in this file relates to Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson as Governor-General of Australia, Lord Liverpool as Governor of New Zealand, General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood, Cecil Fiennes Thursby as Commanding No II Squadron, Sir George Houston Reid as High Commissioner for Australia, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur Bigge (Lord Stamfordham) as Private Secretary to King George V, Major General Walter Pipon Braithwaite as Chief of General Staff Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Andrew Fisher as Australian High Commissioner to United Kingdom, and Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener. This file was part of Item 19 in the filing system used by Birdwood to organise a set of records related to the Dardanelles Campaign. This original list can be found in 3DRL/3376 11/15 File 1. Related items can also be found in 2/8 and 11/17.
This file contains:
Copies of telegrams between Winston Churchill, Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson and Lord Liverpool, 30 April 1915 – 1 May 1915
Copy of a telegram sent by Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton to [Ronald Munro Ferguson] and [Lord Liverpool], 11 May 1915
Copy of message received by Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton from [King George V] and the reply thereto. Published in General Routine Orders, 2 May 1915
Copy of message received by Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton from Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener. Published in General Routine Orders, 4 May 1915
Copies of cablegrams between [Sir George Houston Reid] and General Birdwood, 12 May 1915
Copy of memorandum received from General Headquarters, Mediterranean Expeditionary force dated 16 May 1915
Copy of letter from Rear Admiral Cecil Fiennes Thursby to Birdwood, 18 May 1915
Extract from a letter from Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton to General Birdwood. Published in Special Army Corps Order, 20 May 1915
Extract from a letter received by General Birdwood from [Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur Bigge] [Used with the permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II]
Copies of cablegrams between General Birdwood and [Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson] on the death of Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, 20 May 1915
Copy of a letter received from [Major General Walter Pipon Braithwaite], 22 May 1915
Copies of messages between General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton and [Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson], 23 May 1915
Copy of cablegram received by General Officer Commanding-in-Chief. Published in Army Corps Orders, 26 May 1915
Copy of message from Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener to General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton and reply. Published in General Routine Orders, 27 May 1915
Copies of telegrams despatched and received on the anniversary of [King George V's] birthday (3rd June). Published in Army Corps Orders, 5 June 1915
Copies of cablegrams between [Andrew Fisher] and General William Birdwood. Published in Army Corps Orders, 5 June 1915
Related information
Units
Places
- Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles
- 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, Krithia
- Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Sari Bair Area
People
- Hamilton, Ian Standish Monteith
- Hamilton, Ian Standish Monteith
- Kitchener, Horatio Herbert
- Churchill, Winston Spencer
- Fisher, Andrew
- Fisher, Andrew
- Reid, George Houstoun
- Reid, George Houstoun
- Braithwaite, Walter Pipon
- King George V
- Foljambe, Arthur William de Brito Savile (Lord Liverpool)
- Foljambe, Arthur William de Brito Savile (Lord Liverpool)
- Munro Ferguson, Ronald Craufurd
- Munro Ferguson, Ronald Craufurd
- Thursby, Cecil Fiennes
- Bigge, Arthur John
- Birdwood, William Riddell
- Bridges, William Throsby