Volume 2: Letters written on active service, M-W, 1914-1919 - Page 65

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paper from the local Greeks & write a line or two.

I shall do not bore you with an account of our landing & the ensuing three wild & wobbly days & nights.

I had the honor of being part & parcel (with the other stretcher bearers of our Ambulance) of the landing troops that morning. We have since learned a terrible lot from the Sydney papers of various things that were supposed to have happened such as the Light Horse man who through Turks over his head. We saw his photo & emoluments in the last mails we received & you should have heard the roar of derision.
The Light Horse did not land until three weeks after we made good & it was some shock to see the

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