Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford 

British military historian J.F.C. Fuller said of Stopford that he had 

"no conception of what generalship meant" 

and indeed he was appointed not on his experience (he had seen little combat and had never commanded men in battle) or his energy and enthusiasm (he was aged 61 and had retired in 1909) but because of his position on the list of seniority. 

In his 1920 Who's Who entry he made no mention of his command of a Corps at Gallipoli. He had wiped it from his mind.

After his dismissal Stopford lodged charges with the War Office against Hamilton and his staff.

Stopford was a descendent of John Churchill,
1st Duke of Marlborough

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Graveyards of Gallipoli:  a Tribute to the Men of all the Nations that took part in the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915