World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula
Among those who have given me very kind assistance either on the
Dardanelles Peninsula or in London, I may mention with gratitude
General Sir Ian Hamilton, G.C.B., etc.; General Sir William R.
Birdwood, K.C.B., K.C.S.I., etc.; Major-General Sir Alexander Godley,
K.C.B., etc.; Major-General Sir A. H. Russell, K.C.M.G., etc.; the late
Lieut.-General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude, K.C.B.; Major-General Sir
W. R. Marshall, K.C.B.; Major-General H. B. Walker, C.B.; Major-General
Sir William Douglas, K.C.M.G.; Major-General F. H. Sykes, C.M.G.;
Major-General Sir D. Mercer, K.C.B.; Brigadier-General Freyberg, V.C.;
Colonel Leslie Wilson, D.S.O., M.P.; and Lieut. Douglas Jerrold,
R.N.V.D.; Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, K.C.B., etc.; Rear-Admiral
Heathcote Grant, C.B., etc.; Captain A. P. Davidson, R.N.; Captain
the Hon. Algernon Boyle, R.N.; Staff-Surgeon Levick, R.N.; and the
Rev. C. J. C. Peshall, R.N. It would indeed be difficult to draw up
a complete list of the Naval and Military officers to whom I owe my
thanks.
Having taken many photographs on the Peninsula, I posted them, as
I was directed, to the War Office, and never saw them again. I can
only hope that any one into whose possession they may happen to have
come upon the route, may find them as useful as I should have found
them in illustrating this book. My friend, Captain C. E. W. Bean, has
generously supplied me with some of his own photographs in their place.
For the rest I am permitted to use official pictures, taken by my
friend, Mr. Brooks. They are of course far superior to any I could have
taken, but some are already familiar.
The maps are for the most part constructed from the Staff Maps
(nominally Turkish, but mainly Austrian I believe) used by the G.H.Q.
upon the Peninsula. Some also are derived from drawings by Generals and
Staff Officers. For the larger maps of Anzac and Suvla I am indebted
to the assistance of Captain Treloar and the Australian Staff in
London, with permission of Sir Alexander Godley, and Brigadier-General
Richardson (formerly of the Royal Naval Division); and to Mr. S. B. K.
Caulfield.
The following is a list of the chief books and documents which I have
found useful:--
Sir Ian Hamilton’s Dispatches.
Sir Charles Monro’s Dispatch on the Evacuation.
The Dardanelles Commission Report, Part I.
_With the Twenty-ninth Division in Gallipoli_, by the Rev. O.
Creighton, Chaplain to the 86th Brigade (killed in France, April
1918).
_The Tenth (Irish) Division in Gallipoli_, by Major Bryan Cooper, 5th
Connaught Rangers.
_With the Zionists in Gallipoli_, by Lieut.-Colonel J. S. Patterson.
_The Immortal Gamble_, by A. J. Stewart, Acting Commander, R.N., and
the Rev. C. J. E. Peshall, Chaplain, R.N.
_Uncensored Letters from the Dardanelles_, by a French Medical
Officer.
_Australia in Arms_, by Phillip F. E. Schuler.
_The Story of the Anzacs._ (Messrs. Ingram & Sons, Melbourne.)
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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