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Naval command, co-operation

and capability during the

Dardanelles campaign

Dr Rhys Crawley

Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

Australian National University

Grand Duke Nicholas Winston Churchill Lord Kitchener

HMS Cornwallis fired

the opening shots at

9:51am, 19 February

1915

HMS Queen Elizabeth

The

challenge of

shared

command

General Hamilton: ‘If a sailor

on land is a fish out of

water, a soldier at sea is like

a game cock in a duck pond’.

Vice-Admiral de Robeck:

‘This [commenting on the

failure at Suvla Bay] is not

my business’ but that of the

army.

‘it did not appear that the arrival of the British Fleet off Constantinople would

have the desired effect, namely, of a revolution’

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