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
- 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
- Major-General A. 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
- G.O.C: Lieutenant-General Sir W. Birdwood
- Major-General W. T. Bridges
- 1st Australian Brigade:
- 2nd Australian Brigade:
- 3rd Australian Brigade:
- 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
- Canterbury Battalion
- Otago Battalion
- Wellington Battalion
- 4th Australian Brigade
- 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
- 7th Indian Mountain Artillery Brigade (21st [Kohat] Battery and 26th [Jacob's] Battery)
- Ceylon Planters' Rifle Corps
Corps expéditionnaire d'Orient
- Commander: Général Albert d'Amade
1er Division
- Général Masnou
- Brigade métropolitaine
- 175e Régiment d’infanterie
- Régiment de marche d'Afrique (2 batallions de zouaves, 1 batallion Légion étrangère)
- Brigade coloniale
- 4e Régiment d’infanterie coloniale (2 batallions sénégalais, 1 batallion colonial)
- 6e Régiment d’infanterie coloniale (2 batallions sénégalais, 1 batallion colonial)
- 6 batteries d’artillerie (75mm)
- 2 batteries d’artillerie (65mm)
August 1915[]
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (General Sir Ian Hamilton)[2]
- VIII Corps (Lieutenant General Sir Francis Davies)
- 29th Division
- 42nd (East Lancashire) Division
- 125th Brigade
- 5th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
- 6th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
- 7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
- 8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
- 126th Brigade
- 4th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment
- 5th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment
- 9th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
- 10th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
- 127th Brigade
- 5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
- 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
- 7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
- 8th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
- 125th Brigade
- 52nd (Lowland) Division
- 155th Brigade
- 4th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
- 5th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
- 4th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
- 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
- 156th Brigade
- 4th Battalion, Royal Scots
- 7th Battalion, Royal Scots
- 7th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
- 8th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
- 157th Brigade
- 5th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
- 6th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
- 7th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
- 5th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
- 155th Brigade
- Royal Naval Division
- IX Corps (Lieutenant General Frederick Stopford)
- 10th (Irish) Division
- 29th Brigade
- 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment
- 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles
- 5th Battalion, Connaught Rangers
- 6th Battalion, Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
- 10th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
- 1st Battalion, Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
- 1st Battalion, 54th Sikhs (Frontier Force)
- 1st Battalion, 101st Grenadiers
- 2nd Battalion, 151st Sikh Infantry
- 30th Brigade
- 6th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 7th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 6th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers
- 7th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers
- 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment
- 38th Dogras
- 46th Punjabis
- 1st Battalion, Kashmir Rifles (Imperial Service Troops)
- 31st Brigade
- 5th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
- 6th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
- 5th Battalion, Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
- 6th Battalion, Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
- Pioneers
- 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment
- 29th Brigade
- 11th (Northern) Division
- 32nd Brigade
- 9th Battalion, Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
- 6th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
- 6th Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales Own (Yorkshire Regiment) (Green Howards)
- 8th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
- 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
- 2nd Battalion, Green Howards
- 33rd Brigade
- 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
- 6th Battalion, Border Regiment
- 7th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment
- 9th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottingham and Derbyshire Regiment)
- 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment
- 34th Brigade
- 8th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers
- 9th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
- 8th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment
- 11th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
- 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment
- 2nd South Western Mounted Brigade
- 1st Battalion, Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry
- 1st Battalion, Royal North Devon Yeomanry
- 1st Battalion, West Somerset Yeomanry
- 1/2nd South-Western Signal Troop, Royal Engineers (RE)
- 1/2nd South-Western Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)
- 32nd Brigade
- 13th (Western) Division
- 38th Brigade
- 6th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
- 6th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment
- 6th Battalion, Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
- 6th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
- 39th Brigade
- 9th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
- 7th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
- 9th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 7th Battalion, Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)
- 40th Brigade
- 8th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
- 8th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
- 4th Battalion, South Wales Borderers
- 5th Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)
- 38th Brigade
- Attached:
- 10th (Irish) Division
- Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Lieutenant General William Birdwood)
- Australian 1st Division
- Australian 2nd Division
- New Zealand and Australian Division
- New Zealand Infantry Brigade
- 4th Australian Brigade
- New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade
- 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade
- Attached:
- 29th Indian Brigade
- 14th King George's Own Ferozepore Sikhs
- 1st Battalion, 5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)
- 1st Battalion, 6th Gurkha Rifles
- 2nd Battalion, 10th Gurkha Rifles
- 29th Indian Brigade
- One aviation wing: No. 3 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service (at Imbros)[3]
Oriental Expeditionary Corps (General Maurice Bailloud)
- 1st Division
- 2nd Division
- One aviation squadron: Escadrille MF98T (based at Tenedos)[3]
- VIII Corps (Lieutenant General Sir Francis Davies)
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Ottoman forces[]
Initial landing, 25 April 1915[]
Ottoman dispositions, April 1915
Fifth Army (Otto Liman von Sanders)[6]
- III Corps (Mehmet Esat Bülkat)
- XV Corps (Hans Kannengiesser)
- 3rd Division
- 11th Division
- Dardanelles Fortified Area Command
- One aircraft squadron
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.[6]
August 1915[]
- Fifth Army (Otto Liman von Sanders)[7]
- 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
- I Corps
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- U-21
- Sultanhisar
- Yavûz Sultân Selîm
- Midilli
- Muavenet-i Milliye
- Turgut Reis
- Transport (sunk 27 April 1915)
See also[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Official History of the Great War, Military Operations Gallipoli, Vol. I, Appendix 2
- ↑ Travers 2001, pp. 271–273.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gilbert 2013, p. 44.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Austin 2005, pp. 184 & 231–232.
- ↑ Austin 2005, p. 184.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Erickson 2001, p. 86.
- ↑ Erickson 2001, p. 109.
References[]
- 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". Canberra: Australian War Memorial. pp. 42–47. ISSN 1328-2727.
- Travers, Tim (2001). Gallipoli 1915. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 075242551X.
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