[Outgoing] cablegrams between Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood, General Maxwell, Admiral Carden and Lord Kitchener – reconnaissance and naval bombardment at Dardanelles

This file contains telegrams sent from Cairo and Port Said to correspondents stationed in London, Malta, and Lemnos. Amongst these correspondents were General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell as General Officer Commanding (Cairo) and Admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden located in Port Said. Some of the subjects discussed in this correspondence includes naval preparations for the Dardanelles campaign, plans for the Dardanelles campaign and the landing at Gallipoli, available transports and movements of troops, establishment of a military base at Lemnos, and visits by Birdwood to see Carden and Hamilton. The file itself was identified as Item 18 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:
Telegram number 621E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 21 February 1915
Telegram from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, to Admiral (Port Said), 21 February 1915
Telegram number 624E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 22 February 1915
Telegram number 628E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 22 February 1915
Telegram number 629E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 22 February 1915 [copy]
Telegram number 630E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 23 February 1915
Telegram number 631E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 23 February 1915 [copy]
Telegram from [Admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden] to General Maxwell, 23 February 1915
Telegram number 634E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell], to War Office Secretary, 23 February 1915
Telegram number 636E from Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Kitchener, 23 February 1915
Cablegram number 486C from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell], to War Office Secretary, February 1915 [copy of cablegram written in code]
Telegrams number 637E and 638E from Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 23 and 24 February 1915
Telegram number 639E from Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 24 February 1915
Telegram number 643E from Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to War Office Secretary 24 February 1915 [includes telegram to Admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden]
Telegrams from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral [Sackville Hamilton Carden], 24 February 1915
Telegram number 647E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 25 February 1915
Telegram number 648E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 26 February 1915
Telegram number 649E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell], to War Office Secretary, 26 February 1915
Telegram number 653E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 26 February 1915
Telegram number 654E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 26 February 1915
Telegram numbers 659E and 661E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 27 February 1915
Telegram numbers 103N and 104N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral [Sackville Hamilton Carden], 27 February 1915
Telegram number 664E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 1 March 1915 [includes reply, 2 March 1915]
Telegram numbers 106N and 107N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral [Sackville Hamilton Carden], 1 March 1915
Telegram numbers 108N and 109N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral [Sackville Hamilton Carden] and Admiral Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 2 March 1915
Telegram numbers 673E, 675E and 110N from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener and Senior Naval Officer (Lemnos), 2 and 3 March 1915
Cablegram number 677E from Superflux to Troopers, 3 March 1915 [copy including recipients list]
Telegram number 678E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 4 March 1915
Telegram number 679E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Troopers, 4 March 1915
Telegram number 683E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 4 March 1915
Telegram number 685E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 5 March 1915
Telegram number 686E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 5 March 1915
Telegram number 687E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 5 March 1915
Telegram number 690E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 5 March 1915
Telegram numbers 112N and 113N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 5 March 1915
Telegram number 114N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral Wemyss, 5 March 1915
Telegram number 692E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Secretary (War Office, London), 5 March 1915
Telegram number 693E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Secretary War Office, 5 March 1915
Telegram number 694E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Secretary War Office, 5 March 1915
Telegram number 695E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 5 March 1915
Telegram number 695E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 5 March 1915
Telegram number 696E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 6 March 1915
Telegram number 697E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 6 March 1915
Telegram number 698E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 6 March 1915 [including handwritten summary of telegram number 680E]
Telegram number 701E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 6 March 1915
Telegram number 116N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 7 March 1915
Telegram number 117N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 7 March 1915
Telegram number 118N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 7 March 1915
Telegram number 703E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 7 March 1915
Telegram number 705E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 8 March 1915
Draft cable number 706E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 8 March 1915
Telegram number 119N and 122N from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, to Admiral Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 8 and 9 March 1915
Telegram number 707E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 8 March 1915 [copy]
Telegram number 123N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral Wemyss, 9 March 1915
Telegram number 724E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Lord Kitchener, 12 March 1915
Telegram number 725E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 12 March 1915
Telegram number 729E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Troopers, 13 March 1915
Telegram number 736E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 14 March 1915
Telegram from ANZAC to Colonel Maclagan, 16 March 1915 [copy]
Telegram from ANZAC to Senior Naval Officer (Mudros, Lemnos), 16 March 1915 [copy]
Telegram number 740E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 16 March 1915
Telegram number 742E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to War Office Secretary, 16 March 1915
Telegram number 744E from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 16 March 1915
Telegram numbers 129N and 130N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 16 March 1915
Telegram numbers 131N and 132N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral (Malta) and Admiral Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 16 March 1915
Telegram number 135N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 17 March 1915
Telegram number 136N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 17 March 1915
Telegram number 137N from [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell] to Admiral Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 18 March 1915