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World War 1 diaries of James Churchill-Smith - Volume 1: Gallipoli
Title : World War 1 diaries of James Churchill-Smith - Volume 1: Gallipoli World War 1 diaries of James Churchill-Smith - Volume 1: Gallipoli
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Creator : Churchill-Smith, James, 1894-1968
Source : PRG 1159/1/1
Date of creation : 1915-1916
Format : Diary
Contributor : State Library of South Australia
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Diary kept by Captain (later Major) James Churchill-Smith during his service in the AIF at Gallipoli, covering 26 August 1915 - 23 October 1916.

Read a PDF of this diary: pages 1-99 (5.1MB), pages 100-199 (4MB) and pages 200-287 (4.6MB) or view the full transcript.

Churchill-Smith was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Military Cross and Bar to Military Cross during his service. View his AIF Service Record [National Archives of Australia]

Subjects
Period : 1914-1918
Further reading :

Bean, C. E. W. Gallipoli mission, Sydney : ABC Enterprises in association with the Australian War Memorial for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1990

Bean, C. E. W. Gallipoli correspondent, the frontline diary of C.E.W. Bean / selected and annotated by Kevin Fewster, Sydney : George Allen & Unwin, 1983

Brice, Chris. 'Gallipoli...hell & glory', The Advertiser, 21 April 1990, Magazine, pp. 2-3

Chambers, Stephen. Anzac : the landing, Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military, 2008

Hart, Peter. Gallipoli, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011

Laffin, John. Damn the Dardanelles! : the story of Gallipoli, Sydney : Doubleday, 1980

Reid, Richard. A 'duty clear before us': North Beach and the Sari Bair Range, Gallipoli Peninsula : 25 April-20 December 1915, Canberra, A.C.T. : Dept. of Veterans' Affairs, 2000

Robertson, John. Anzac and Empire : the tragedy & glory of Gallipoli, [Richmond, Vic.] : Hamlyn Australia, 1990

Steel, Nigel and Peter Hart. Defeat at Gallipoli, London : Macmillan, 1994

Winter, Denis. 25 April 1915: the inevitable tragedy, St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1994

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