COVERED WITH GLORY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2494, 22 June 1915, Page 3

COVERED WITH GLORY

The fine work done by the Australian troops in their landing at the Dardanelles is emphasised in a letter received by a relative from Captain Rev. Gordon Robertson, chaplain, Australian 6th Light Horse, whose brother, Major Robertson, was killed in action. In the course of the letter the following paragraph occurs:—"For the last few days I have been visiting the hospitals, and watching the Red Orescent trains coming in with wounded. . . . The sth did liot get into it quite as soon as the I Oth, who, with the 10th and 11th, began the landing on Sunday week, April 25 All our men have done magnificently; but, alas, wo have had to pay dearly . . . Our men are covered with glory. What they did was considered by the Turks to be impossible—so Turkish prisoners declare. They landed on an enemy coast, under batteries, ma-chine-gun, and shrapnel fire. They took two miles of country without firing a shct—all bayonet work. They got tb-ee miles the first day. Then they retired, and entrenched half-way back to the beach. The Turks then counter attacked, and were picked off like rabbits. New our men are mors comfortable in tienchee, and advancing steadily and well. . . . If Australia could boo the wounds that I have seen every available man would come, and every pound would be subscribed to bring this war to a sudden end. ... It is bad enough to see men mutilated here, but I thing, after all, those at home suffer most. Our men have taken it magnificently, •and have written a page of history that can never; be blotted out."