Jack Tar: Churchill’s Little Army at Gallipoli
In this presentation, Steve Chambers talks about the Royal Naval Division and its fighting on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915.
The RND was conceived and founded by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, in late August 1914. It arguably became one of Britain’s elite divisions by the war’s end, but had to learn its fighting craft first, which it did in the Dardanelles.
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