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DESCRIPTIVE NARRATIVES OF THE
MORE DESPERATE ENGAGEMENTS
ON THE GALLIPOLI PENINSULA
By
OLIVER HOGUE
(Second Light Horse Brigade)
Preface by the Hon. J. A. Hogue
"When cannons are roaring and bullets are flying,
The lad that seeks honour must never fear dying."
SECOND EDITION
LONDON: ANDREW MELROSE, LTD
3 YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C
Printed June 1916
Reprinted August 1916
DEDICATED
TO
ALL THE BRAVES
Who fought for Australia and the Empirein the
GREAT WAR;
The Dead who yet live,
And the Living who bear their Battle scars
upon them, or, scatheless, thank God for
His Mercy.
The Author desires to thank the Proprietorsof the Sydney Morning Herald for permissionto incorporate in this book the "TrooperBluegum" articles which originally appeared inthat journal, and the Proprietors of the PassingShow for permission to reprint the verses "Anzac,"by "Argent." He desires to thank many friendsin Australia, previously unknown to him, forkind letters sent to him whilst fighting (and writing)in the trenches on Gallipoli; and also thatlittle band of Red Cross workers in country townsof New South Wales who, in appreciation of hisstories from the Front, knitted him socks andBalaclava caps and scarves to ward off the winterwinds. Especially does he desire to thank hisesteemed colleague on the Herald, Mr. FarmerWhyte, for valuable assistance, generously rendered,in the preparation and arrangement of thecontents of this book for publication in theirpresent form.
Among the legacies, good and evil, tragic andinspiring, which the Great War of Nationsis destined to hand down to posterity, one of themost valuable and permanent in its influencewill be the Literature which this Armageddonwill have brought forth. In that fountainof knowledge the world will have command ofvast stores of intellectual treasure—History,Poetry, the Drama, Philosophy, Fiction—whichwill continue to fascinate, to appal, to instruct,so long as books are read and the crimes, thevirtues, the calamities and follies of mankindare subjects of human interest.
Such a literature, sanctified by the blood ofmillions of heroes—the world's best manhood—andby sacrifices and sufferings that have literallystaggered humanity, will comprehend and crystallizeevents, compared with which all former[Pg 8]world-cataclysms will seem but passing ripples onthe ocean of life.
While in its inception and progress this greatestbreach of the world's peace has exhibited a sectionof mankind as hardly at all removed from fiendsincarnate, it has also shown men inspired by thehighest virtues and striving for the loftiest ideals;and it has produced women only a little lower thanthe angels. T