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{{About|the United Kingdom and British Empire forces at Gallipoli. For Salonika, see [[British Salonika Army]]. For Italy, see [[British Force in Italy]]. For Egypt, see [[British Force in Egypt]] and [[Egyptian Expeditionary Force, UK]].}}
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{{About|the general headquarters that commanded United Kingdom and British Empire forces at Gallipoli from April 1915 to January 1916 (see also [[Dardanelles Army, UK]]), and Salonika from November 1915 to March 1916 (see also [[British Salonika Army]]). For Egypt, see [[British Force in Egypt]] (was this under GHQ MEF from November 1915 to March 1916?) and [[Egyptian Expeditionary Force, UK]]. For Italy, see [[British Force in Italy]]. For the French forces at Gallipoli, see [[Corps Expeditionnaire d'Orient, French]].}}
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General Headquarters '''Mediterranean Expeditionary Force''' was on the island of Imbros from 31 May to 23 November 1915.<ref name="ob4-47">{{RefOB|4|47}}</ref> On 23 November 1915, the headquarters at Imbros became Army Headquarters [[Dardanelles Army, UK]], while '''Mediterranean Expeditionary Force''' formed a new general headquarters at Mudros on the island of Lemnos.<ref>General Staff {{RefWarDiary|23/11/1915||Dardanelles Army, UK}}</ref>
  
 
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| specific_type = Expeditionary force
 
| specific_type = Expeditionary force
 
| start_date = 11/3/1915<ref name="ob4-48">{{RefOB|4|48}}</ref>
 
| start_date = 11/3/1915<ref name="ob4-48">{{RefOB|4|48}}</ref>
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| end_date = January 1916<ref name="ob4-53">{{RefOB|4|53}}</ref>
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| end_date = 20/3/1916<ref name="ob4-32">{{RefOB|4|32}}</ref>
 
| country = United Kingdom
 
| country = United Kingdom
 
| branch =  
 
| branch =  
 
| size_at_full_strength =  
 
| size_at_full_strength =  
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| disbanded = Merged with [[British Force in Egypt]] and became [[Egyptian Expeditionary Force, UK]]
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| disbanded = Merged with [[British Force in Egypt]] to form [[Egyptian Expeditionary Force, UK]]
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| alternate_unit_names =
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| alternate_unit_names = Medforce, MEF
 
| unit_name1 = Mediterranean Expeditionary Force
 
| unit_name1 = Mediterranean Expeditionary Force
 
| unit_name1_start_date = 11/3/1915<ref name="ob4-48" />
 
| unit_name1_start_date = 11/3/1915<ref name="ob4-48" />
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| unit_name1_end_date = 23/11/1915<ref name="ob4-53" />
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| unit_name1_end_date = 20/3/1916<ref name="ob4-32" />
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| unit_name1_reason_for_change = Put under [[General Headquarters Eastern Mediterranean, UK]]
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| unit_name1_reason_for_change = Disbanded
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| unit_name2 = Dardanelles Army
 
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| unit_name2_start_date = 23/11/1915<ref name="ob4-53" />
 
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| unit_name2_end_date = January 1916<ref name="ob4-53" />
 
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| unit_name2_reason_for_change = Moved to Egypt and disbanded.
 
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
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{{Infobox command structure
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| command_start_date = 23/11/1915<ref name="ob4-53" />
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| command_start_date = 23/11/1915<ref name="ob4-47" />
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| command_end_date = January 1916<ref name="ob4-53" />
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| command_end_date = 12/1/1916<ref name="ob4-47" />
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| parent = General Headquarters Eastern Mediterranean, UK
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| subordinate = Dardanelles Army, UK
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| parent_level = Army group
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| subordinate_level = Army
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| relationship_type = Tactical
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}}
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{{Infobox command structure
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| command_start_date = 23/11/1915<ref name="ob4-47" />
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| command_end_date = 20/3/1916
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| subordinate = British Salonika Army, UK
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| subordinate_level = Army
 
| relationship_type = Tactical
 
| relationship_type = Tactical
 
}}
 
}}
  
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{{Infobox command structure
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| command_start_date = April 1915<ref name="ob4-48" />
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| command_end_date = 23/11/1915<ref name="ob4-47" />
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| subordinate = Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
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| subordinate_level = Corps
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| relationship_type = Tactical
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}}
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{{Infobox command structure
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| command_start_date = 12/1/1916<ref name="ob4-47" />
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| command_end_date = 15/2/1916<ref>General Staff {{RefWarDiary|15/2/1916||I ANZAC Corps}}</ref>
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| subordinate = Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
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| subordinate_level = Corps
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| relationship_type = Tactical
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}}
 
{{Infobox command structure
 
{{Infobox command structure
 
| command_start_date = 24/5/1915<ref name="ob4-181">{{RefOB|4|181}}</ref>
 
| command_start_date = 24/5/1915<ref name="ob4-181">{{RefOB|4|181}}</ref>
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| command_end_date = 23/11/1915<ref name="ob4-47" />
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| subordinate = VIII Corps, UK
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| subordinate_level = Corps
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| relationship_type = Tactical
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| command_start_date = 12/1/1916<ref name="ob4-47" />
 
| command_end_date = 27/1/1916<ref name="ob4-179">{{RefOB|4|179}}</ref>
 
| command_end_date = 27/1/1916<ref name="ob4-179">{{RefOB|4|179}}</ref>
 
| subordinate = VIII Corps, UK
 
| subordinate = VIII Corps, UK
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{{Infobox command structure
 
{{Infobox command structure
 
| command_start_date = 22/6/1915<ref>{{RefOB|4|187}}</ref>
 
| command_start_date = 22/6/1915<ref>{{RefOB|4|187}}</ref>
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| command_end_date = 4/1/1916<ref>{{RefOB|4|185}}</ref>
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| command_end_date = 23/11/1915<ref name="ob4-47" />
 
| subordinate = IX Corps, UK
 
| subordinate = IX Corps, UK
 
| subordinate_level = Corps
 
| subordinate_level = Corps
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| command_start_date = April 1915<ref name="ob4-48" />
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| command_start_date = 12/1/1916<ref name="ob4-47" />
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| command_end_date = January 1916<ref name="ob4-53" />
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| command_end_date = 20/3/1916
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| subordinate = Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
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| subordinate = IX Corps, UK
 
| subordinate_level = Corps
 
| subordinate_level = Corps
 
| relationship_type = Tactical
 
| relationship_type = Tactical
 
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{{Infobox command structure
 
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| command_start_date = April 1915
 
| command_start_date = April 1915
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*{{WarDiaryTNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C138583|WO 95/4263-4272}}
 
*{{WarDiaryTNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C138583|WO 95/4263-4272}}
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*{{WarDiaryAWM|1|4|March 1915|March 1916}}. Headquarters: General Staff.
  
 
=== Unit histories ===
 
=== Unit histories ===
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*{{RefTNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C91161|WO 157/647-654}}, intelligence summaries.
 
*{{RefTNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C91161|WO 157/647-654}}, intelligence summaries.
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*{{WarDiaryAWM|1|5|April 1915|March 1916}}. Headquarters: intelligence summaries.
  
 
== Other sources ==
 
== Other sources ==

Revision as of 10:49, 5 May 2015

This page is about the general headquarters that commanded United Kingdom and British Empire forces at Gallipoli from April 1915 to January 1916 (see also Dardanelles Army, UK), and Salonika from November 1915 to March 1916 (see also British Salonika Army). For Egypt, see British Force in Egypt (was this under GHQ MEF from November 1915 to March 1916?) and Egyptian Expeditionary Force, UK. For Italy, see British Force in Italy. For the French forces at Gallipoli, see Corps Expeditionnaire d'Orient, French.

General Headquarters Mediterranean Expeditionary Force was on the island of Imbros from 31 May to 23 November 1915.[1] On 23 November 1915, the headquarters at Imbros became Army Headquarters Dardanelles Army, UK, while Mediterranean Expeditionary Force formed a new general headquarters at Mudros on the island of Lemnos.[2]


Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, British Army
Years active: 11/3/1915[3] – 20/3/1916[4]
Country: United Kingdom
Service: British Army
Branch:
Type: Formation
Specific type: Expeditionary force
Full size:
Sources for overview:
Created: 11/3/1915[3]. 
Sources for created:
Name1: Mediterranean Expeditionary Force
Name1 Start: 11/3/1915[3]
Name1 End: 20/3/1916[4]
Reason for change: Disbanded
Sources for name1:
Alternate names: Medforce, MEF
Sources for alternate names:
Disbanded: 20/3/1916[4]. Merged with British Force in Egypt to form Egyptian Expeditionary Force, UK
Sources for disbanded:
For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war.
Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Subordinate unit: Dardanelles Army, UK
Subordinate level: Army
Start date: 23/11/1915[1]
End date: 12/1/1916[1]
Sources:
Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Subordinate unit: British Salonika Army, UK
Subordinate level: Army
Start date: 23/11/1915[1]
End date: 20/3/1916
Sources:
Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Subordinate unit: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
Subordinate level: Corps
Start date: April 1915[3]
End date: 23/11/1915[1]
Sources:
Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Subordinate unit: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
Subordinate level: Corps
Start date: 12/1/1916[1]
End date: 15/2/1916[5]
Sources:
Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Subordinate unit: VIII Corps, UK
Subordinate level: Corps
Start date: 24/5/1915[6]
End date: 23/11/1915[1]
Sources:
Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Subordinate unit: VIII Corps, UK
Subordinate level: Corps
Start date: 12/1/1916[1]
End date: 27/1/1916[7]
Sources:
Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Subordinate unit: IX Corps, UK
Subordinate level: Corps
Start date: 22/6/1915[8]
End date: 23/11/1915[1]
Sources:
Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Subordinate unit: IX Corps, UK
Subordinate level: Corps
Start date: 12/1/1916[1]
End date: 20/3/1916
Sources:
Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Subordinate unit: Lines of Communication, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, UK
Subordinate level:
Start date: April 1915
End date: January 1916
Sources:
Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Subordinate unit: 29th Division, UK
Subordinate level:
Start date: April 1915[3]
End date: 24/5/1915[6]
Sources:
Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Subordinate unit: 42nd Division, UK
Subordinate level:
Start date: April 1915[3]
End date: 24/5/1915[6]
Sources:
Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Subordinate unit: 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, UK
Subordinate level:
Start date: April 1915[3]
End date: 24/5/1915[6]
Sources:


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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Template:RefOB
  2. ↑ General Staff Template:RefWarDiary
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Template:RefOB
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Template:RefOB
  5. ↑ General Staff Template:RefWarDiary
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Template:RefOB
  7. ↑ Template:RefOB
  8. ↑ Template:RefOB
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