World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula
_Attached as Specialist on Water Supply_, Lieut.-Colonel A. C. Joly
de Lotbinière, C.S.I., C.I.E.
AUSTRALIAN DIVISION.
_Commander_, Major-General W. T. Bridges, C.M.G.
_General Staff Officer_, Lieut.-Colonel C. B. B. White (R.A.A.).
_Commanding Divisional Artillery_, Colonel J. J. T. Hobbs, V.D.
_Commanding Divisional Engineers_, Lieut.-Colonel G. C. E. Elliott
(R.E.).
_1st (New South Wales) Infantry Brigade._
_Commander_, Colonel H. N. M‘Laurin. (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
Battalions, New South Wales.)
_2nd (Victoria) Infantry Brigade._
_Commander_, Colonel the Hon. J. W. M‘Cay, V.D. (5th, 6th, 7th, and
8th Battalions, Victoria.)
_3rd (Australia) Infantry Brigade._
_Commander_, Colonel E. G. Sinclair Maclagan, D.S.O. (Yorkshire
Regiment). (9th Queensland, 10th South Australian, 11th West
Australian, 12th South Australian, West Australian, and Tasmania.)
_Divisional._ 4th (Victoria) Light Horse.
NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN DIVISION.
_General Officer Commanding_, Major-General Sir A. J. Godley,
K.C.M.G., C.B.
_Chief Staff Officer_, Lieut.-Colonel W. G. Braithwaite, D.S.O.
(Royal Welsh Fusiliers).
_Commanding Divisional Artillery_, Lieut.-Colonel G. N. Johnston
(R.A.).
_Commanding Divisional Engineers_, Lieut.-Colonel G. R. Pridham
(R.E.).
_New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade._
_Commander_, Brigadier-General A. H. Russell, A.D.C. (Auckland,
Canterbury, and Wellington Mounted Rifles.)
_1st Australian Light Horse Brigade._
_Commander_, Colonel H. G. Chauvel, C.M.G. (1st New South Wales, 2nd
Queensland, 3rd South Australian, and Tasmania Regiments.)
_New Zealand Infantry Brigade._
_Commander_, Colonel F. C. Johnston (North Staffordshire Regiment).
(Auckland, Canterbury, Otago, and Wellington Battalions.)
_4th Australian Infantry Brigade._
_Commander_, Colonel J. Monash. (13th New South Wales, 14th Victoria,
15th Queensland and Tasmania, and 16th South and West Australia
Battalions.)
_Divisional._ Otago Mounted Rifles.
CORPS TROOPS.
_2nd Australian Light Horse Brigade._ (5th, 6th, and 7th Regiments.)
_Commander_, Colonel G. de L. Ryrie.
_3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade._ (8th, 9th, and 10th Regiments.)
_Commander_, Colonel F. G. Hughes, V.D.
The Mounted Units had left their horses behind them in Egypt, and the
popular pictures representing cavalry charging over broken ground upon
the Peninsula are imaginative.
ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION.
_General Officer Commanding_, Major-General A. Paris, C.B.
_General Staff Officer_, Lieut.-Colonel A. H. Ollivant (R.A.). (The
Division had no guns.)
_Commanding Divisional Engineers_, Lieut.-Colonel A. B. Carey (R.E.).
_First Naval Brigade._
_Commander_, Brigadier-General D. Mercer (R.M.L.I.). (Drake,
Nelson, Hawke, and Collingwood Battalions.)
_Second Naval Brigade._
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