GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16725, 7 January 1920, Page 7

GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN.

NOT TOUGHT IN VAIN.

£B? CaW^—Press Association—Copy-ric-ht.) (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.) (Received January <ith, 8.-10 p.m.) HYD.VKY", January (5. Major-General Sir Charles Rosenthal, K.C.M.G., C.8., D.8.0., lato G.0.C.. 2nd Australian Division, has returned from .England.

In an interview, he emphatically protested against tho view that tho Gallipoli campaign was a failure. It was necessary, he said, to study the war in all its parts. Tho Gullipoli Campaign had far-reaching effects in tho results of the war.

Ho remarked: "Wo have access to papers which show that the Turkish army was absolutely decimated on Gallipoli, nnd that it was not possible for Turkey to havo an army again for 6omo timo.

[Sir Charles Rosenthal, K.C.M.G., C.8., D.5.0., who is 4o years of ago, is a native oL New South Wales, and an architect by profession. Ho left Australia with tho Main Body of tho Australian Imperial Forces, in 1914, and served through tho Gallipoli campaign as Commanding Officer of tho 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, Ist Australian Division (twico wounded, mentioned in despatches, rcccivcd C.8.). In this capacity, and subsequently as Commanding Officer of the Divisional Artillery, 4th Australian Division, he served at Armenticrcs, Ypres, Sommo (1916), liiillccourt, and Itlessines (wounded at tho Sommo, twico mentioned in despatches. C.M.G., D.5.0.). As G.0.C., 9th Australian Infantry Brigade, he served nt Passchendnclo, Hnngnrd, Tillers Brotloncux, and Morlancourt (gassed at Pnsschendacle, twico mentioned in despatches, bar to D.5.0., Belgian Croix do Guerre). Sir Charles Rosenthal was G.0.C., 2nd Australian Division in tlje Inst weeks of tho war, and until demobilisation.!