A VITAL ENDEAVOR: Military Engineering in the Gallipoli Campaign

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Examines the work of the Royal Engineers during the Gallipoli Campaign, demonstrating the amount of engineering work required for a WWI seaborne invasion. The Royal Engineers were working on the first day of the landings and were amongst the last to leave on the evacuation and looks at the difficult tasks of providing infrastructure to the peninsula handling all kinds of engineering works, from piers to land the stores, to roads and railways to distribute the equipment to the various parts of the line. Includes its structure of the MEF and how their work was controlled at Brigade, Division, and Corps level. Includes 21 b/w photos, 21 b/w maps, 20 b/w sketches, and 4 tables.