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Chipper to the last, General Sir Ian Hamilton departing for England after the failure of the operations at Gallipoli. (
Left to right
) Commodore Roger Keyes (Chief of Staff to Admiral de Robeck), Admiral John de Robeck (Commander of the Naval Forces in the Dardanelles), General Sir Ian Hamilton (Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force) and General Walter Braithwaite (Chief of the General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force). (AWM H10350)

Happily ever after: Lieutenant Gordon Carter and Nurse Lydia King, who married in 1917.

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Gallipoli
ePub ISBN 9780857984562

Copyright © Peter FitzSimons, 2014

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First published by William Heinemann in 2014

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Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

FitzSimons, Peter, author
Gallipoli/Peter FitzSimons

ISBN 9780857984562 (ebook)

World War, 1914–1918–Campaigns–Turkey–Gallipoli Peninsula
World War, 1914–1918–Participation, Australian

940.426

Cover: Men of the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment taking over new dugouts near No 1 Outpost, on the left of Walker's Ridge (AWM C02727).
Cover design by Adam Yazxhi/MAXCO

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