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The Dardanelles Campaign, 1915-1916

The images available from this page were primarily selected for the Archives Centre's online educational resource, The Churchill Era. For further information about the historical background to these documents and the key events and individuals connected with the disastrous Dardanelles campaign, please visit www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/education/churchill_era/exercises/dardanelles/ where you will also find additional images of documents and illustrations.

Photographs

Transport ships in Mudros Bay, Dardanelles. Reproduced with permission of Lady Lloyd Reference: Lloyd Papers, GLLD 3/2/12.
Transport ships in Mudros Bay, Dardanelles, 1915.
Reproduced with permission of Lady Lloyd
HMS Agamemnon in Mudros Bay, Dardanelles. Reproduced with permission of Lady Lloyd Reference: Lloyd Papers, GLLD 3/2/12
HMS Agamemnon in Mudros Bay, Dardanelles, 1915.
Reproduced with permission of Lady Lloyd
Anzac beach Reference: Churchill Archives Centre photographs
Anzac beach, April 1915
Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty. Reproduced with the permission of the Master and Fellows of Churchill College Reference: Baroness Spencer-Churchill Papers, CSCT 5/2/17
Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty.
Reproduced with the permission of the Master and Fellows of Churchill College.
Troops in the trenches, Dardanelles. Reproduced with the permission of Lady Lloyd Reference: Lloyd Papers, GLLD 3/2/31
Troops in the trenches, Dardanelles.
Reproduced with the permission of Lady Lloyd
Congested communication trench, Dardanelles. Imperial War Museum, negative Q13325 Reference: Rhodes James Papers, RHJS 3/2/95
Congested communication trench, Dardanelles.
Imperial War Museum, negative Q13325
Photograph of Suvla Bay 3 days before evacuation Reference: Rhodes James Papers, RHJS 3/2
Photograph of Suvla Bay 3 days before evacuation, December 1915.
Abandoned armaments train, Sedd-el-Bahr, Imperial War Museum, negative Q13698 Reference: Rhodes James Papers, RHJS 3/2/108
Abandoned armaments train, Sedd-el-Bahr.
Imperial War Museum, negative Q13698

Documents

  • Extract from letter from Churchill to Bonar Law (leader of the Conservative Party), 21 May 1915, justifying his role as First Lord of the Admiralty.
  • Memorandum for Cabinet by Churchill defending his Dardanelles policy, 15 August 1915.
  • Extracts from the diary of Maurice Hankey (Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence), 1915.
  • Letter from Admiral Lord Fisher (First Sea Lord) to Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty), 5 April 1915.
  • Note from Churchill to Fisher, 8 April 1915.