memoir, memoir
Accession Number
NAM.2006-04-21-40
Description
Typescript account written by Lt Col B A Wright Officer Commanding 11th Bn Manchester Regiment about his experiences during the Suvla Bay landings at Gallipoli, between 6 Aug and 9 Aug 1915. Written at El Ferdan on 27 Mar 1916. Signed in pencil. 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.
Events
Suvla Front, 1915 (World War One, Gallipoli 1915-1916)
