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Gallipoli campaign order of battle

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

  • 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 Archibald Paris
  • 1st (Naval) Brigade
  • Drake Battalion
  • Nelson Battalion
  • Deal Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry
  • 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

1<sup>re</sup> Division

  • Général Masnou
  • Brigade métropolitaine
  • 175<sup>e</sup> Régiment d’infanterie
  • Régiment de marche d'Afrique (2 Zouave battalions, 1 battalion of Légion étrangère)
  • Brigade coloniale
  • 4<sup>e</sup> Régiment d’infanterie coloniale (2 Senegalese battalions, 1 colonial battalion)
  • 6<sup>e</sup> Régiment d’infanterie coloniale (2 Senegalese battalions, 1 colonial battalion)
  • 6 artillery batteries (75mm)
  • 2 mountain artillery batteries (65mm)

August 1915

  • Oriental Expeditionary Corps (General Maurice Bailloud)
  • 1st Division (as above)
  • 2nd Division
  • 3<sup>e</sup> Brigade métropolitaine
  • 176<sup>e</sup> Régiment d’infanterie
  • 2<sup>e</sup>Régiment de marche d'Afrique (3 Zouave battalions)
  • 4<sup>e</sup> Brigade coloniale
  • 7<sup>e</sup> Régiment d’infanterie coloniale
  • 8<sup>e</sup> 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)

Naval forces

  • British:
  • (Sunk)
  • (Sunk)
  • (Sunk)
  • (Sunk)
  • HMS Zealandia
  • (Sunk)
  • (Wrecked)
  • (Scuttled)
  • (Sunk)
  • - improvised landing craft

Ottoman forces

Initial landing, 25 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.

August 1915

Naval forces

  • Transport (sunk 27 April 1915)

See also

Notes

References

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.