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Order of battle for the Gallipoli campaign

This is an order of battle listing the Allied and Ottoman forces involved in the Gallipoli campaign during 1915.

Australian soldiers from the 1st Infantry Brigade at Lone Pine, 6 August 1915

Allied forces edit

Initial landings, 25 April 1915 edit

Mediterranean Expeditionary Force[1]

  • Commander-in-Chief: Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton
  • Chief of the General Staff: Maj-Gen. W. P. Braithwaite
  • Deputy Adjutant-General: Br-Gen. E. M. Woodward
  • Deputy Quartermaster-General: Br-Gen. S. H. Winter

29th Division

Royal Naval Division

  • Major-General A. Paris
  • 1st (Naval) Brigade
  • 2nd (Naval) Brigade
    • Howe Battalion
    • Hood Battalion
    • Anson Battalion
  • 3rd (RM) Brigade
    • Chatham Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry
    • Portsmouth Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry
    • Plymouth Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry
  • Motor Maxim Squadron (Royal Naval Air Service)
  • 1st & 2nd Field Companies, RN Divisional Engineers
  • Divisional Cyclist Company

Australian and New Zealand Army Corps

1st Australian Division

New Zealand and Australian Division

ANZAC Corps Troops

Corps expéditionnaire d'Orient

1re Division

  • Général Masnou
  • Brigade métropolitaine
  • Brigade coloniale
    • 4e Régiment d’infanterie coloniale (2 Senegalese battalions, 1 colonial battalion)
    • 6e Régiment d’infanterie coloniale (2 Senegalese battalions, 1 colonial battalion)
  • 6 artillery batteries (75mm)
  • 2 mountain artillery batteries (65mm)[a]

August 1915 edit

    •   Oriental Expeditionary Corps (General Maurice Bailloud)
      • 1st Division (as above)
      • 2nd Division
        • 3e Brigade métropolitaine
            • 176e Régiment d’infanterie
            • 2eRégiment de marche d'Afrique (3 Zouave battalions)
        • 4e Brigade coloniale
          • 7e Régiment d’infanterie coloniale
          • 8e Régiment d’infanterie coloniale
        • 9 Batteries (75mm)
      • Corps Troops
        • 1 Heavy Bty (120mm long)
        • 1 Heavy Bty (155mm long)
        • 2 Heavy Btys (155mm short)
        • 2 Siege guns (240mm)
        • Battery of naval guns
        • One aviation squadron: Escadrille MF98T (based at Tenedos)[5][b]

Naval forces edit

Ottoman forces edit

Initial landing, 25 April 1915 edit

 
Ottoman dispositions, April 1915

Note: When the campaign commenced, the Fifth Army comprised two army Corps:

  • the III Corps was defending the Gallipoli peninsula
  • and the XV Corps was defending the Asian shore.

In addition, the 5th Division was positioned north of the peninsula under the command of First Army.[9]

August 1915 edit

Naval forces edit

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Appendix 1 of the French official history (AFGG 8,1) has a four page table listing the units of the C.E.O. at its departure on 4 March 1915. Appendix 2 has a four page breakout of the transport vessels and units aboard.[2]
  2. ^ Appendix 3 of the French official history (AFGG 8,1) has a one page table chronologically listing the units that subsequently joined the C.E.O. at Gallipoli.[6]

References edit

  1. ^ Official History of the Great War, Military Operations Gallipoli, Vol. I, Appendix 2
  2. ^ Lepetit, Tournyol du Clos & Rinieri 1923, pp. 539–542.
  3. ^ Travers 2001, pp. 271–273.
  4. ^ Aspinall-Oglander, Vol II, pp. 487–95.
  5. ^ a b Gilbert 2013, p. 44.
  6. ^ Lepetit, Tournyol du Clos & Rinieri 1923, p. 547.
  7. ^ a b Austin 2005, pp. 184 & 231–232.
  8. ^ Austin 2005, p. 184.
  9. ^ a b Erickson 2001, p. 86.
  10. ^ Erickson 2001, p. 109.

Bibliography edit

  • Brig C.F. Aspinall-Oglander, History of the Great War: Military Operations Gallipoli, Vol II, May 1915 to the Evacuation, London: Heinemann, 1932/Imperial War Museum & Battery Press, 1992, ISBN 0-89839-175-X/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84574-948-4.
  • Austin, Ron (2005). Gallipoli: An Australian Encyclopedia of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign. McRae, Victoria: Slouch Hat Publications. ISBN 9780957975255.
  • Erickson, Edward J. (2001) [2000]. Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing. ISBN 0-313-31516-7.
  • Gilbert, Greg (2013). "Air War Over the Dardanelles". Wartime (61). Canberra: Australian War Memorial: 42–47. ISSN 1328-2727.
  • Lepetit, Vincent; Tournyol du Clos, Alain; Rinieri, Ilario, eds. (1923). Les armées françaises dans la Grande guerre. Tome VIII. La campagne d'Orient (Dardanelles et Salonique) Premier Volume. (février 1915-août 1916) [8,1] (in French). Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. OCLC 491775878. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • Travers, Tim (2001). Gallipoli 1915. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 075242551X.
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