GALLIPOLI LANDING
A THRILLING ACCOUNT. One of the most thrilling account* of the famous landing at Gallipoli is that given in John Masefield’s “Gallipoli” :—“The men jumped out, waded ashore, charged the enemy with bayonet, and broke the Turk attack to jaieces. The Turks scattered, and’ were pursued, and now the steep, scrub-covered cliffs became the scene of the most desperate fighting. . . . AH over the broken hills there were isolated fights to the death, men falling into gullies and being bayoneted; sudden duels, point blank, where men, crawling through the scrub, met each other, and liio went to the quicker finger; heroic deaths, where some halfsection which had lost touch were caught by ten times their strength and charged and died. . . . Scattered parties who had gone too far in the scrub were cut off and killed, for there was no thought of surrender in those marvellous young men; they were the flower of this world’s manhood, and died as they lived, owning no master on earth.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10611, 9 June 1920, Page 6
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166GALLIPOLI LANDING New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10611, 9 June 1920, Page 6
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