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Typescript account written by Lt L D Cooke, 5th Bn Dorsetshire Regiment outlining Brigade orders events during the Suvla Bay landings at Gallipoli, on 6 Aug 1915. Written on 29 Mar 1916. 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)