THE 29th DIVISION ON GALLIPOLI.
Gisborne, April 25. “Some of us have lived to curse the word Anzac,” declared Captain Turnbull, D. 5.0., in proposing a toast at the Anzac dinner to-night. “We New Zealanders and Australians may have done a great deal at Anzac, but as a matter of fact, we did absolutely 'nothing compared with that incomparable 29th Division —(cheers) —who landed at Holies. There are some of you who, like myself, saw Cape Helles a week or ten days after the dear old 29th landed. It was something that can hardly be realised, much less described. lam proud to belong to the same nation, although I am a New Zealander, and they are Britons. I don’t for a moment belittle our landing at Anzac, but compared Avith the Avork of the 29ths, Avhere barbed Avire avus run out deep into the sea, and the Avatcr ran red with blood—well, I take my hat off to those fellows. (Cheers.) We, of the Anzacs, may have done well, as I have said, but avc have groAvn ashamed to see our deeds extolled from end to end of the Empire while the incomparably greater service of such English troops as I have mentioned goes practically unnoticed.” (Cheers and prolonged applause).
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1819, 27 April 1918, Page 2
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210THE 29th DIVISION ON GALLIPOLI. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1819, 27 April 1918, Page 2
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