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Typescript account written by Lt F H Walker, Machine Gun Officer, 8th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers about his experiences during the Suvla Bay landings at Gallipoli, between 6 Aug and 7 Aug 1915. Incomplete as Walker taken sick before completion. One of 57 typescript copies personal accounts and associated documents, describing the Suvla Bay landings at Gallipoli. Originally sent to Sir John Fortescue possibly by Capt The Hon Evelyn James Hewitt, later 7th Viscount Lifford, Dorset Regiment and part of a quantity of papers previously held at the Royal Archives. Associated with the Suvla Front, World War One, Gallipoli (1914-1918) 1915.

Suvla Front, 1915 (World War One, Gallipoli 1915-1916)