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Typescript account written by an anonymous member of 34th Brigade 11th Division about the Suvla Bay landings at Gallipoli, between 6 Aug and 22 Aug 1915. Its original arrangement at the start of the 5th Dorsetshire Regiment suggests a member of that battalion, possibly Capt The Hon Evelyn James Hewitt, later 7th Viscount Lifford, who sent Suvla Bay accounts to Sir John Fortescue. 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)