[Material prepared for evidence before Dardanelles Commission] Evacuation Operations

Places	Europe: Greece, Salonika Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Anzac Area (Gallipoli) Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Anzac Area (Gallipoli), Anzac Beaches Area, Anzac Beach Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Suvla Bay Area
Accession Number	RCDIG0000107
Collection number	3DRL/3376 11/15 File 7A
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	File
Item count	8
Object type	Papers
Physical description	33 Image/s captured
Maker	Birdwood, William Riddell Various
Date made	1915-1917
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions	Digital format and content protected by copyright.

Places

Accession Number

RCDIG0000107

Collection number

3DRL/3376 11/15 File 7A

Collection type

Digitised Collection

Record type

File

Item count

Object type

Papers

Physical description

33 Image/s captured

Maker

Birdwood, William Riddell
Various

Date made

1915-1917

Conflict

First World War, 1914-1918

Copying Provisions

Digital format and content protected by copyright.

This file contains letters and telegrams written between 4 November 1915 and 13 February 1917 about the evacuation from ANZAC Cove and Suvla. The correspondence in this file includes plans for the evacuation and reports written after it was completed. This file was part of Item 1 on Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood's list of files submitted as evidence to the Dardanelles Commission. This original list can be found in 3DRL/3376 11/15 File 1.
This file contains:
A. Copies of cablegrams between Birdwood and Field Marshal Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener re command of Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and Salonika Force, 3 November – 5 November 1915
B. Cablegram from War Office ordering evacuation of Suvla and Anzac, 8 December 1915
C. Extract from a communication from Captain A P Davidson to Admiral Sir John de Robeck – Turkish opinion of Dardanelles operations, n.d.
D. Letter from Colonel Cecil Faber Aspinall to Birdwood re evacuation orders from General Headquarters, 13 February 1917
E. D/O letter of 13 December 1915 re evacuation of Anzac and Suvla from Birdwood to Colonel Clive Wigram
F. letter of 20 December 1915 describing Anzac-Suvla evacuation
G. Letter from Birdwood to Colonel Clive Wigram of 22 December 1915 describing Anzac-Suvla evacuation
H. Letter of 7 January 1916 (P.S 9 January 1916 – Helles Evacuation)