Right beside me, within a space of fifteen feet, I can count fourteen of our boys stone dead. Ah! It is a piteous sight.Men and boys who yesterday were full of joy and life, now lying there, cold - cold - dead - their eyes glassy, their faces sallow and covered with dust - soulless - gone - somebody's son, somebody's boy - now merely a thing. Thank god that their loved ones cannot see them now - dead, with the blood congealed or oozing out . Lance Corporal Cyril Lawrence, 2nd Field Company Engineers One of the most famous assaults of the Gallipoli campaign took place over four bloody days in...
Right beside me, within a space of fifteen feet, I can count fourteen of our boys stone dead. Ah! It is a piteous sight.Men and boys who yesterday wer...