Identity area
Reference code
IE DCUA C2/1/2/2/2
Title
British Army transcribed signals from the landings at Gallipoli, 25-26 April 1915.
Date(s)
- 25 April 1915-26 April 1915 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
4 items
Context area
Name of creator
(1881-1954)
Name of creator
(1951-)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes four '"C" Form[s], Messages and Signals' [transcribed signals] relating to units of the 86th Brigade who would have been on active service as part of the 29th Division on the Gallipoli peninsula in April 1915 [see file C2/1/2/2/3 for further context]. The forms include handwritten signals in pencil, with messages such as: 'Send reinforcements. Urgently required. I have no men.'; 'I am unable to hold out. Send reinforcements. Urgent.' and 'No answer to last message. The wire must be cut. I have sent patrol. Firing is very near.'
Some of the signals are signed 'J Murphy' who Colum Kenny suggested may have been Kevin J Kenny's brother-in-law, Jack (John) Murphy.