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.
[ edit ] 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
Major-General A. G. Hunter-Weston
86th Brigade :
87th Brigade :
88th Brigade :
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 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
175e Régiment d’infanterie Régiment de marche d'Afrique (2 Zouave battalions, 1 battalion of Légion étrangère )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] Mediterranean Expeditionary Force' (General Sir Ian Hamilton)[ 4] IX Corps Frederick Stopford )
10th (Irish) Division 29th Brigade
30th Brigade
31st Brigade
Pioneers
5th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment
LV Brigade, RFA (A, B, C & D Btys) – A & C did not arrive until September
LVI Brigade, RFA (A, B, C & D Btys) – A & B did not arrive until October
LVII (Howitzer) Brigade, RFA (A & D Btys)
65th, 66th & 85th Field Companies, RE
Divisional Cyclist Company 11th (Northern) Division 13th (Western) Division 38th Brigade
39th Brigade
40th Brigade
Pioneers
LXVI Brigade, RFA (A, B, C & D Btys)
LXIX (Howitzer) Brigade, RFA (A, B, C & D Btys)
71st, 72nd & 88th Field Companies, RE
Divisional Cyclist Company Corps Troops
1/IV Highland (Mountain) Brigade, RGA (Argyllshire, and Ross & Cromarty Btys) Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Lieutenant General William Birdwood)
GHQ Troops
20th Brigade, RGA (10th, 15th & 91st Heavy Btys)
Armoured Car Division, Royal Naval Air Service (9, 10 & 11 Squadrons)
One aviation wing : No. 3 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service (at Imbros ) Oriental Expeditionary Corps (General Maurice Bailloud )
1st Division (as above )2nd Division
3e Brigade métropolitaine
176e Régiment d’infanterie 2e Régiment 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)[ b] [ edit ] 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.
I Corps
II Corps
III Corps
7th Division
8th Division
9th Division
19th Division
IV Corps
V Corps
13th Division
14th Division
15th Division Dardanelles Fortified Area Command
One aircraft squadron
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Official History of the Great War, Military Operations Gallipoli, Vol. I, Appendix 2
^ Aspinall-Oglander, Vol II, pp. 487–95.
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.
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 ISBN 0-313-31516-7 Gilbert, Greg (2013). "Air War Over the Dardanelles". Wartime (61). Canberra: Australian War Memorial: 42–47. ISSN 1328-2727 . Lepetit, Vincent; Tournyol du Clos, Alain; Rinieri, Ilario, eds. (1923). Les armées françaises dans la Grande guerre. Tome VIII. La campagne d'Orient (Dardanelles et Salonique) Premier Volume. (février 1915-août 1916) [8,1] OCLC 491775878 . Travers, Tim (2001). Gallipoli 1915 . Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 075242551X
'Mediterranean Expeditionary Force' (General Sir Ian Hamilton)[3][4]
Oriental Expeditionary Corps (General Maurice Bailloud)
Fifth Army (Otto Liman von Sanders)[9]