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Rare original Gallipoli 4 page hand written letter written on…
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Sydney
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23-Apr-2010
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Rare original Gallipoli 4 page hand written letter written on paper, taken from a Turkish officer's dugout in a captured trench, dated August 26th 1915 and sent by Private Percival Madden 3rd Battalion AIF, the letter provides a scarce first hand account of the Battle of Lone Pine, mentions Captain Charles Bean (the founder of the Australian War Memorial and compiler of the 12 volume official History of Australia in the first World War) and talks about alleged Turkish attrocities, 'Our last big engagement was our charge on August 6th, my Company of the 3rd Batt had the honour of leading the charge, i am not going to describe this charge here, because i know that you will have had a fuller description of it, as Captain bean the war Correspondent was watching the whole of it, all i can say now is, that it was jolly hot while it lasted, my word didn't they give US a time of it with their bombs, after we had taken the position, it was like hell, however we managed to hang on to it, after repulsing several counter-attacks, i might say here that the Turkish trenches and ours are in some places no more than seven yards apart, pretty close fighting ¿h'
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Militaria & Weapons: Ephemera