Dardanelles Commission

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The Dardanelles Commission was an investigation into the disastrous 1915 Dardanelles Campaign. It was set up under the Special Commissions (Dardanelles and Mesopotamia) Act 1916.

Witnesses of those involved in the expedition were interviewed, with its final report issued in 1919. It concluded that the expedition was poorly planned and executed and that difficulties had been underestimated, problems which were exacerbated by supply shortages and by personality clashes and procrastination at high levels.

The report is not seen as having had any measurable further impact on people's careers.

Appointees

The following were appointed

• William Pickford, 1st Baron Sterndale; Chairman
• Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer; (d. 29 Jan 1917)
• Andrew Fisher;
• Thomas Mackenzie;
• Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley;
• James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde;
• Stephen Lucius Gwynn
• Walter Francis Roch;
• Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Henry May
• William Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson

References

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