The story of a original ANZAC
Private Roy Denning landed on Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and served there until he received a severe gunshot wound in the back on 16 June. He was evacuated to Pembroke Camp in Malta four days later and after his recovery he went on to fight on the Western Front until the end of the war. While he was recovering in Malta he wrote of the landing in Gallipoli, his first letter unfortunately no longer exists but the second letter I will publish here For an hour or more I struggled on slipping every now and again right down the side where the earth was very loose, making my already wet and heavy clothes still heavier with the mud that hung to them. I found it very slow work my pack and rifle and shovel etc. catching every few minutes in the thick scrub, I had at times hard work to extricate myself I seemed to have handles sticking all over me, but what we accomplished that day we ourselves marvel at now. In spite of the dirty and in some cases ragged uniform covering tired bodies the m...