Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston, was a British Army officer who served in the First World War at Gallipoli in 1915 and in the very early stages of the Somme Offensive in 1916. He was also a Scottish Unionist MP.
Aylmer Hunter-Weston
King George V (centre, mounted) inspecting the 29th Division at Dunchurch, Warwickshire, prior to the division's departure for Gallipoli, 12 March 1915. The 29th Division's GOC, Major General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, rides alongside the King at the right of the photo.
Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston.
Major-General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, along with two members of his staff, in the trench leading to his dug-out, the entrance to which, protected by sand-bags, is seen in the background, July 1915.
The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defence of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916. The Entente powers, Britain, France and the Russian Empire, sought to weaken the Ottoman Empire, one of the Central Powers, by taking control of the Ottoman straits. This would expose the Ottoman capital at Constantinople to bombardment by Entente battleships and cut it off from the Asian part of the empire. With the Ottoman Empire defeated, the Suez Canal would be safe and the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits would be open to Entente supplies to the Black Sea and warm-water ports in Russia.
A collection of photographs from the campaign. From top and left to right: Ottoman commanders including Mustafa Kemal (fourth from left); Entente warships; V Beach from the deck of SS River Clyde; Ottoman soldiers in a trench; and Entente positions
Panoramic view of the Entente fleet in the Dardanelles
French troops land at Lemnos, 1915.
Australian troops, Port Mudros, Greece, 20 April 1915
