Tom Iredale served as a Logistics Officer in the Royal Air Force, with postings in Aden, Sharjah and Germany. After his military career, he put his fluency in German and working proficiency in French to use in senior international marketing and sales roles for a German firm. Following early retirement, he established himself as an independent provider of language services.
He produced the English translation of the Gallipoli Association–sponsored volume Victory at Gallipoli 1915: The German-Ottoman Alliance in the First World War, and is currently translating a major study of the Ottoman-German artillery defence of the Dardanelles, 1914–1918. His research interests focus on the German, French and Ottoman dimensions of the Gallipoli campaign.
His grandfather served in the Anson Battalion of the Royal Naval Division and was killed in the Dardanelles in late May 1915; he is commemorated on the Helles Memorial. Since 2015, Tom has made annual field visits to Gallipoli, and serves as Overseas Liaison Officer and Trustee of the Gallipoli Association.
