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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…
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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…
