Gallipoli and dysentery

[CINDERS]

A small book from my shelves written in the first person to our then Prime Minister probably one of the best short accounts of what turned out to be folly of the highest order but at the time the objective was set and a plan hatched.
No one will ever say that the troops that landed there that fateful morning nor the troops defending their homeland shores fought with any less vigor than was expected of them, our boys nearly carried the day such was their endeavour but it was not to be and thus the stalemate occurred much like the Western front trenches.
There were heroics from all ranks of services involved for our boys perhaps it started as a game but after the debacle in April then in May when the truce was in affect the Aussie diggers got to see first hand their adversary was amiable as they were and grudgingly gave "Abdul" the nod of approval as a fighter.

If you follow our efforts in the first world war it really hit home as in those years Australia's population was around 5-6 million people so WWI touched allot of the families a bit like the Pal's Battalions the British came up with to replace the carnage on the Western Front.