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Description: | Lecture relating to the 1915 Gallipoli campaign: given by former midshipman with HMS Bacchante in Mediterranean, present during landing at Anzac, 25/4/1915
REEL 1 Lecture on origins of Gallipoli campaign, 1915: symbolic importance of death of Rupert Brooke; origins of campaign; Turkish defences covering Dardanelles; composition of Allied Mediterranean fleet; global strategic impact of preliminary bombardments and landings at Helles, 2/1915; failure of attempt to rush Dardanelles, 18/3/1915; preparations for military landing; opinion of senior naval and army commanders on both sides including story of dining with Birdwood at Anzac; youth of midshipman of HMS Bacchante; recollections of scene on departure of landing forces from Mudros, Lemnos, Greece, 24/4/1915; review of Hamilton's plans for landings on Gallipoli; failure of landing at V Beach, 25/4/1915.
REEL 2 Continues: landing at V, W and X Beaches, 25/4/1915; diversion at Bulair, 25/4/1915; recollections of landing as midshipman in command of Bacchante picket boat at Anzac Beach, consolidation of Anzac positions, fatigue on return to HMS Bacchante, 25/4/1915-27/4/1915; Turkish counter attack and subsequent truce; conditions of service; story of evacuation of wounded colonel of Indian Regt at Anzac; arrival of German submarines; British submarine operations in Sea of Mamara; failure of combined Sari Bair and Suvla offensive, 8/1915; Hamilton's return to GB, 10/1915; evacuation, 12/1915. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bush, Eric W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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