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Ellwood: I always remember Rafa because I think I was one of the most fortunate, the show was one of the most fortunate part of the whole show. We happened to be, we were joined in battle with them in…
Ellwood: I wasn’t actually in action at Romani. I had been on, I had had an attack of dysentery that I picked up from eating some bad tinned fowl at Cantara. I had been away with dysentery and I had…
Ellwood: On one occasion, before the big push north into Palestine it was, when everything had to be hush-hush and we had to treat the natives or the desert Arabs or the Bedouins, or whatever you like to call them,…
Ellwood: Did I ever tell you what my opinion of the evacuation was? Turnbull: No, you didn’t Ellwood: Do you mind if we digress? Turnbull: Not at all. Ellwood: I am of the opinion that it was not as it…
Ellwood: The issue on Gallipoli was bully beef in a tin which came from the Argentine and the property of Fray Bentos and he was a count and he was a German in the first place and the second place…
Ellwood: I was only a small ant in a big anthill. But a lot of it is very very interesting. It brings back a lot of memories and it explains a few things – a lot of things it leaves…
Turnbull: When you were on Gallipoli according to the official history, on May 25 the regiment occupied reserve gully and had five men wounded and then about mid-day HMAS Triumph was torpedoed by a German submarine. Ellwood: She was a…
Ellwood: I’ve been often told that I should get these things off my chest because when you go to bed of a night time, no matter how you close you eyes, you can’t shut out the scenes that you know……
Ellwood: Have you heard of the battle of the Wazza? You’ve heard of the Battle of the Wazza, well that was a very interesting thing too. Well, there’s no need for me to tell you about it if you’ve heard…
Ellwood: For the Light Horse training included swimming 500-odd horses across the Nile below what place they called the barrage. Well, to do that you can imagine it would take some organisation and the way it was done I think…
