Order of battle for the Gallipoli campaign

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

  • Major-General A. G. Hunter-Weston
  • 86th Brigade:
    • 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
    • 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
    • 1st Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
    • 1st Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers
  • 87th Brigade:
    • 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers
    • 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
    • 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
    • 1st Battalion, Border Regiment
  • 88th Brigade:
    • 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
    • 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
    • 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment
    • 5th Battalion, Royal Scots
  • XV Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery (B, L & Y Batteries)
  • XVII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (13th, 26th & 92nd Batteries)
  • CXLVII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (10th, 97th & 368th Batteries)
  • 460th (Howitzer) Battery, Royal Field Artillery
  • 4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) (Argyllshire Battery and Ross & Cromarty Battery)
  • 90th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
  • 14th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
  • 1/2nd London, 1/2nd Lowland & 1/1st W. Riding Field Companies, Royal Engineers (TF)
  • Divisional Cyclist Company

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

  • Major-General W. T. Bridges
  • 1st Australian Brigade:
    • 1st (New South Wales) Battalion
    • 2nd (New South Wales) Battalion
    • 3rd (New South Wales) Battalion
    • 4th (New South Wales) Battalion
  • 2nd Australian Brigade:
    • 5th (Victoria) Battalion
    • 6th (Victoria) Battalion
    • 7th (Victoria) Battalion
    • 8th (Victoria) Battalion
  • 3rd Australian Brigade:
    • 9th (Queensland) Battalion
    • 10th (South Australia) Battalion
    • 11th (Western Australia) Battalion
    • 12th (South & Western Australia and Tasmania) Battalion
  • I (New South Wales) Field Artillery Brigade (1st, 2nd & 3rd Batteries)
  • II (Victoria) Field Artillery Brigade (4th, 5th & 6th Batteries)
  • III (Queensland) Field Artillery Brigade (7th, 8th & 9th Batteries)
  • 1st, 2nd & 3rd Field Companies, Royal Australian Engineers

New Zealand and Australian Division

  • Major-General Sir A. Godley
  • New Zealand Infantry Brigade
    • Auckland Battalion
    • Wellington Battalion
    • Canterbury Battalion
    • Otago Battalion
  • 4th Australian Brigade
    • 13th (New South Wales) Battalion
    • 14th (Victoria) Battalion
    • 15th (Queensland & Tasmania) Battalion
    • 16th (South & Western Australia) Battalion
  • New Zealand Field Artillery Brigade
    • 1st Field Battery
    • 2nd Field Battery
    • 3rd Field Battery
    • 4th (Howitzer) Field Battery
  • Field Company, New Zealand Engineers

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

    • 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]

Naval forces

  • British:[7]
    • HMS Agamemnon
    • HMS Albion
    • HMS Canopus
    • HMS Cornwallis
    • HMS Exmouth
    • HMS Glory
    • HMS Hibernia
    • HMS Implacable
    • HMS Irresistible (Sunk)
    • HMS London
    • HMS Lord Nelson
    • HMS Majestic (Sunk)
    • HMS Mars
    • HMS Ocean (Sunk)
    • HMS Prince George
    • HMS Prince of Wales
    • HMS Queen
    • HMS Queen Elizabeth
    • HMS Russell
    • HMS Swiftsure
    • HMS Triumph (Sunk)
    • HMS Venerable
    • HMS Vengeance
    • HMS Zealandia
    • HMS Inflexible
    • HMS Bacchante
    • HMS Blenheim
    • HMS Cornwall
    • HMS Dartmouth
    • HMS Doris
    • HMS Edgar
    • HMS Endymion
    • HMS Europa
    • HMS Euryalus
    • HMS Grafton
    • HMS Talbot
    • HMS Theseus
    • HMS Ark Royal
    • HMS Manica
    • HMS Dublin
    • HMS Goliath (Sunk)
    • HMS Louis (Wrecked)
    • HMAS AE2 (Scuttled)
    • HMS B11
    • HMS E11
    • HMS E14
    • HMS E15
    • HMS E20 (Sunk)
    • SS River Clyde - improvised landing craft
  • French:[7]
    • Bouvet (Sunk)
    • Charlemagne
    • Gaulois
    • Henri IV
    • Jules Ferry
    • Massena (Sunk)
    • Saint Louis
    • Suffren
    • Jeanne d'Arc
    • Jurien de la Gravière
    • Kleber
    • Foudre
    • Joule
    • Saphir (Sunk)
    • Turquoise (Sunk)
  • Russian:[8]
    • Askold

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.[9]

August 1915

  • Ottoman Empire Fifth Army (Otto Liman von Sanders)[10]
    • I Corps
      • 2nd Division
      • 3rd Division
    • II Corps
      • 4th Division
      • 5th Division
      • 6th Division
    • III Corps
      • 7th Division
      • 8th Division
      • 9th Division
      • 19th Division
    • IV Corps
      • 10th Division
      • 11th Division
      • 12th Division
    • V Corps
      • 13th Division
      • 14th Division
      • 15th Division
    • Dardanelles Fortified Area Command
    • One aircraft squadron

Naval forces

  • U-21
  • Sultanhisar
  • Yavûz Sultân Selîm
  • Midilli
  • Muavenet-i Milliye
  • Turgut Reis
  • Transport (sunk 27 April 1915)

See also

Notes

  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

  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

  • 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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