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Description: | Australian private served as signaller with 4th Australian Bde, Anzac Corps at Gallipoli, 1915; served on Western Front, 1916-1918
REEL 1 Recollections of landing as signaller with 4th Australian Brigade at Anzac, Gallipoli, Turkey, 25/4/1915: naval support bombardment; view of progress from ship; casualties whilst landing as reinforcements at 4pm; heavy fire along beach; situation during move inland along Shrapnel Gully. Aspects of service at Anzac, 4/1915-5/1915: nature of trenches; inspection by Birdwood at Rest Gully; rations; reaction to arrival of Australian Light Horse; noise; repelling Turkish attack on Quinn's Post, 19/5/1915; armistice to bury Turkish dead, 24/5/1915; opinion of Turkish troops; difficulty of disposing of Turkish corpse in trench after Turkish attack, 19/5/1915; exchanging rations with Turks; white flag bearers during armistice, 24/5/1915. Recollections of attack on Western Front, 1916-1918: identification insignia worn; preliminary bombardment; crossing No Man's Land and state of terrain. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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