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Accession Number RCDIG0000083
Collection number 3DRL/3376 11/4b
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 13
Object type Letter
Physical description 52 Image/s captured
Maker Various
Date made 1915-1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Description

This file contains letters and gazette notices sent and received by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood between 31 March 1915 and 20 March 1917. The correspondents include General Sir Alexander John Godley, General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, Major General Charles Edward Callwell, General Sir Beauchamp Duff, and Walter Hume Long. Included in this file are letters discussing evidence for the Dardanelles Commission, despatch of reinforcements at Gallipoli, employment of dismounted Light Horsemen, and descriptions of general operations. The file itself features the number 3 in blue written on the cover, indicating that it was Item 3 on Birdwood's original listing of files related to the Dardanelles campaign. This original list can be found in 3DRL/3376 11/15 File 1.

This file contains:
Letter from General Alexander John Godley to Birdwood, 14 February 1917
Letter from Birdwood to Lieutenant General Alexander John Godley, 15 February 1917
Letter from Lieutenant General Alexander John Godley to Birdwood, 27 February 1917
Minute from Birdwood to General John Grenfell Maxwell re Gallipoli, 18 May 1915
Letter from Birdwood to General John Grenfell Maxwell, 18 May 1915
Letter from Birdwood to General John Grenfell Maxwell, 8 June 1915
Minute from Birdwood to General John Grenfell Maxwell re reinforcements, 25 June 1915
Letter from Temp Major General Charles Edward Callwell to Birdwood, 31 March 1915
Letter from Temp Major General Charles Edward Callwell to Birdwood, 30 April 1915
Letter from Birdwood to Temp Major General Charles Edward Callwell, 15 May 1915
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No.3 [containing a report on the evacuation of Anzac Cove], 10 January 1916
Letter from Birdwood to General Sir Beauchamp Duff, 3 December 1915
Letter from Walter Hume Long, 20 March 1917