| Places | |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | RCDIG0000090 |
| Collection number | 3DRL/3376 11/7 |
| Collection type | Digitised Collection |
| Record type | File |
| Item count | 13 |
| Object type | Papers |
| Physical description | 78 Image/s captured |
| Maker |
Various |
| Date made | 1915 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copying Provisions | Digital format and content protected by copyright. |
Telegrams between Lord Kitchener and Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood – Dardanelles Operations
Birdwood, Lord William Riddell (Field Marshal, b.1865 - d.1951)
- Series 11: Correspondence and other papers 1915 - 1930 related to the Dardanelles Campaign
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Description
This file contains telegrams exchanged by Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener and Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood between 3 November 1915 and 8 December 1915. The telegrams are often addressed to General Maxwell, although their intended recipient is usually identified in the text as being Lord Kitchener or Birdwood. The telegrams were collated and sent to Birdwood in the original envelope included in this file. The file consists of loose telegrams as well as a bound volume and cover the Dardanelles Campaign, particularly the evacuation from Gallipoli. The file itself was identified as Item 9 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:
Envelope titled "Telegrams between Lord Kitchener and General Birdwood. Dardanelles Operations", n.d.
Telegram from Lord Kitchener to Birdwood, 3 November 1914 [sic. 1915]
Telegram number B1 from Birdwood to Field Marshal Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 4 [November 1915]
Telegram number 9536 from Field Marshal Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener to Birdwood, 4 [November 1915]
Telegram number B2 from Birdwood to Field Marshal Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener via CIGS War Office, 4 November 1915
Telegram number 9626 from Herbert Henry Asquith to Birdwood via War Office, 6 November [1915]
Telegram number B3 from Birdwood to Herbert Henry Asquith via CIGS, 7 November [1915]
Telegram number MF838 from Birdwood to Colonel Oswald Gerald Fitzgerald, [1915]
Telegram number 9539 from Proemial to Birdwood, 4 November 1915
Telegram number 2 from Major Charles Lancelot Storr to Birdwood, 5 November [1915]
Telegram number 9603 from Field Marshal Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener to Birdwood via CIGS, 6 November 1915
Letter from Birdwood to [Lord Kitchener]about evacuation from Gallipoli, c. 1915 [incomplete]
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps recorded correspondence - Operations in the Dardanelles, [21 February – 8 December 1915]