ANZAC, 1915

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 514, 24 April 1933, Page 4

ANZAC, 1915

SOME MEMOftljij FACETS OF THE LANDfsl LIFE ON SHELT I SWiEPT COAST 1 ' WHAT "SCOTTY" ^1 It really doesn't seeni like sinee the landing at Anzac fl 25, 1915, bnt time rolls 0n 3 le&sly. a It was.a fine still morning J troopships carrying the New Zealanders to emhatk isM ly serious warfare, steam^l into the rising sun opposite « ren-looking coast north' of GjS and there was. a purple hazeJ waterfront which, with the 3 ing directly into one's eyj even through good glaisses M indistinct. . 1 ■ The Australians had laniM dark and an intermittent q*I rifle fire with occasional wfl shell fire were all that sjj somewhere in front were into action, most of them. forfl time for one could hardlycaM gagement on th'e Suez Caua^J if isubsequently came to stood. Ever and anon caiJ from the ishore and beacha&ijB when the sound of fire ro3 smoke clouds would rise. - J shrapnel. In the meantirae fl bardment from the Brifeh in intensity now and then psjfl by the terrific booms whentJ dnch guns of th'e "Queen Lizfifl ed the erown of Achi Baha « it was then called "Battle^B •The New- Zealanders inrn J when the picket-boats cameaH -the transpe-rts and th'e meafl That they 'suflfered m'ay fl that in the whole Anzae (M 8556 New Zealanders were H Gallipoli and the casualfcsB and wounded) numhered llljl does not count sick and J

Flies and Heat ■ Mostly memories run tolM flies, and h'eat. Short -ratioM tery, hully beef (Fray Bentosfl and flies and again flies. ■ Few will forget the firstfl bread; it wa» hard and and some of it was moulrff. ■ was bread and it was betterfl ■army biscuits. Rifle hutfe J on those biscuits, let alomtsM Then there was the ZionlaM all Jews from Jerusalem;- diM stand English' but, after a J understand good Colonial acefl hy a boot. They first cameifl when carrying water tiisfl mules at >the end of Hell fl there were mules and Heirfl tered all over Anzac for thfl days . . • and Walker's "kifl wdthout water. ■ Then there were the Navyfl Ian Hamilton says that tEelfl Fiather and M other to Anatfl Father, Mother and the ^fl including the store at tk tfl the New Zealanders. Whoiifl th'e Navy men landing ten fl eggs, ahout the size of csfl still eggs. They went pracfiefl •out exception to the dysaiiafl Murphy and His Dujfl Then there>was MnrphyBB his real name was) aiiifl Murphy, who canied down^H men through every thing $4fl ing, snipers, shrapnel, tfl bomhs and the rest. Thereifl New Zealanders who to Murphy. He was killei fl Th'en there was the a Turk 'plane came over (ii^| ly a German Taube, andvsflfl it looked) who jumped up slfl iastically handed the Taultifl his .38 revolver. . . range a^H thousand feet. He gotaffi^H ful telling off from his waking them up. ."fl Turning to th'e sadsife^B the sinking of the Triiiffl^fl f eeling of helplessness turned over and one coiiMsifl there and watch. The esisfl smell -on the day of the May 24 when both parfe^B into the middle of No bury the Turkish dead There was the fumblingbfl ness towards the No. 3 the one and only timetW^B engaged in a straightout gagement with ahout her of adversaries. Then there was the Jlo^fl zard. The terrible contrai^H •heat of summer to thehaa^B of th'at awful storm thin cotton clothing wer!^B their posts and the rushing rivers of ficy Last scene of all. when we had to leave ha^fl we had striven for, that, so many mates., The Story of But there is still rooffl of "Scotty." "Scotty" out to the colony and ^^fl poor opinion of things the Landing came "Scfl'^fl his mates and he gd &^fl through the palm of ^f.^fl is nothing perhaps vhc the nerves like 'a hau "Scotty" brought tuming to his mates ^ the beggars axe try '^fl They think I'm & ^e(, .^fl "Scotty" came hackto^^fl and now lies near L°ae Will anyone who the Maoris when they ^fl trenches and the s ^ 'Jj^fl rose ahove the sound o fire? It certainly the Turks and they . mturition that night ^^fl any night since the # revelation, especiallL .^fl who thought good companions ® .J^fl "too noisy for the wS. Just a few facets there 'are getting :^fl ' them.— Thirteen