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

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

Allied forces

Initial landings, 25 April 1915

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)

August 1915

Ottoman forces

Initial landing, 25 April 1915

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.[6]

August 1915

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Official History of the Great War, Military Operations Gallipoli, Vol. I, Appendix 2
  2. ^ Travers 2001, pp. 271–273.
  3. ^ a b Gilbert 2013, p. 44.
  4. ^ a b Austin 2005, pp. 184 & 231–232.
  5. ^ Austin 2005, p. 184.
  6. ^ a b Erickson 2001, p. 86.
  7. ^ Erickson 2001, p. 109.

References

  • Austin, Ron (2005). Gallipoli: An Australian Encyclopedia of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign. McRae, Victoria: Slouch Hat Publications. ISBN 9780957975255. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • 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. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Gilbert, Greg (2013). "Air War Over the Dardanelles". Wartime (61). Canberra: Australian War Memorial: 42–47. ISSN 1328-2727. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Travers, Tim (2001). Gallipoli 1915. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 075242551X. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
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