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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…

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Of course we had responsibilities too, I think, which made us different [as soldiers] That old saying, you’ve heard it, that gentlemen of the Light Horse and men of the Infantry. You’ve heard that. Well that was brought about only…

The Re-Demonisation of Aboriginal Australia: Civilisation, Barbarism and Indigeneity in the Post-Consensus Era by Christopher Kelen University of Western Sydney, Nepean A macabre joke with some currency in Australia now runs as follows: Ivan Milat is walking through the forest…

Ellwood: Another thing that is very very much impressed on the mind is the depth of a feeling of friendship that grew over there under the conditions that we lived in, its environment. It was almost unbelievable. The closeness that…

Ellwood: I came back from Australia, I came back on leave. You want my personal thoughts about the whole thing and this is something that is very close to undressing my sole. I had the feeling that I had done…