Gallipoli campaign order of battle

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

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Initial landings, 25 April 1915

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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

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    • France 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]
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Ottoman forces

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Initial landing, 25 April 1915

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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

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See also

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Notes

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  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

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  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

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  • 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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