Glorious Deeds of Australasians in the Great War
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Buley Ernest Charles. Glorious Deeds of Australasians in the Great War
PREFACE
PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION
CHAPTER I. THE LONG BLACK SHIPS
CHAPTER II. THE END OF THE RAIDER "EMDEN"
CHAPTER III. IN THE LAND OF PHARAOH
CHAPTER IV. THE BATTLE OF BRIGHTON BEACH
CHAPTER V. OCCUPYING THE LAND
CHAPTER VI. POPE'S HILL AND GABA TEPE
CHAPTER VII. THE CHARGE AT KRITHIA
CHAPTER VIII. THE BATTLE OF QUINN'S POST
CHAPTER IX. A THORN IN THE FLESH
CHAPTER X. THE SOUL OF ANZAC
CHAPTER XI. THE STORY OF LONE PINE
CHAPTER XII. THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT HORSE
CHAPTER XIII. THE MIGHTY NEW ZEALANDERS
CHAPTER XIV. THE VALLEY OF TORMENT
CHAPTER XV. THE GREAT NIGHT MARCH
CHAPTER XVI. THE STORY OF THE "SOUTHLAND"
CHAPTER XVII. THE V.C.'S OF ANZAC
CHAPTER XVIII. SAID AN AUSTRALIAN OFFICER
CHAPTER XIX. THE BAND OF BROTHERS
CHAPTER XX. A TRIBUTE TO THE TURK
CHAPTER XXI. GURKHAS, WHITE AND BROWN
CHAPTER XXII. THE MAN WHO WASN'T LET
CHAPTER XXIII. THE AUSTRALASIAN SOLDIER
CHAPTER XXIV. FILLING THE GAPS
CHAPTER XXV. THE ARMIES OF AUSTRALASIA
CHAPTER XXVI. CLEARING THE PACIFIC
CHAPTER XXVII. THE YOUNGEST NAVY IN THE WORLD
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE HEART OF EMPIRE STIRRED
CHAPTER XXIX. THE SECOND DIVISION
CHAPTER XXX. THE LAST OF ANZAC
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The rapid exhaustion of four editions of this book has been accepted by myself as sufficient proof that I have succeeded in carrying out the main idea suggested to me by Mr. Andrew Melrose, the publisher. He divined that some continuous account of the deeds of Australasians in the war would be received with interest, pending the appearance of an authoritative work by the official historian of the Anzacs. I have now extended the book to include all the main incidents of the fighting in Gallipoli, and the evacuation of the Peninsula.
I wish to thank my many friends of the Australian and New Zealand Imperial Forces who have written pointing out errors in the original text, and amplifying my accounts of various engagements. The appreciation they have expressed of my modest performance has indeed been gratifying, and any fear I may have had of their misunderstanding the purpose of the book has been entirely removed.
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McKenzie of Otago weighs two stone more, though he has no whit of advantage in height. He carries no spare flesh, but is a big-boned, thick-set fellow, brought up on mutton and oatmeal. His cheeks are rosy and tanned with the salt wind that never ceases to blow over the wholesome island where he grows rich harvests of grain and tends his plentiful flocks. He is a stiff, great fellow, as hard as nails, and as healthy as a big bullock. His keen blue eyes look out from under a smooth brow unfurrowed by any care. He comes from a land where there is no want; his million or more of fellow New Zealanders have not yet built a big city or created a huge fortune. Easy prosperity, an abundance of physical well-being, and a continual strife for high moral excellence are the characteristics of his country, where the death-rate is the lowest in the world and the sale of intoxicants is subject to closer restriction in peace time than anywhere else in the Empire.
The West Australians, for some reason not yet apparent, are, as a class, the heaviest and stoutest of Australians. They number many a jack-of-all-trades in their ranks, for they have learned to turn their hands to many things. They are bronzed by a climate where the sun seldom fails to shine brilliantly; healthy, shrewd, sane and full of reckless courage. The South Australians approximate more nearly to the Cornstalk type, and from them are drawn some of the finest riders in the ranks of Australia's celebrated Light Horse.
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