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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)[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

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

Naval forces

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.

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