The Map Of Honour

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Max Carmichael. The Map Of Honour

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Historical Note

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It was uncomfortably cold in the guard room of the First Australian Imperial Force School of Musketry near Lark Hill on the Salisbury Plains of England. Most of the off-duty sentries were huddled around the room’s pot-bellied heater in an effort to keep warm. However, one of the guards, Private Ellis, sat apart from the group at the single table in the room. He was concentrating all of his attention on a small pile of erotic post cards that he had arranged before him on the table, and trying to decide which of the semi clad young women depicted on the cards he liked best.

The corporal in charge of the off-duty sentries entered the room and pushed his way to the front of the group surrounding the heater. He glared across the heads of those around the heater. ‘Private Ellis! I thought you said July was summertime in this bloody country,’ he grumbled.

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Then one day soon after the main evacuation from Gallipoli, as Cook reviewed a list of those to be posted to the School, he noticed a familiar name: “Sergeant R. Green.” Surely, Cook thought, it could not be the same man, but some discreet inquiries confirmed that it was indeed his nemesis.

At first, Cook was full of righteous indignation that a black fellow should be posted to such a prestigious unit as the Musketry School, an opinion he expressed publicly. Privately, however, he was fearful that Green’s presence at the School would revive the whole Gallipoli incident fiasco and render his position at the School untenable. He determined not to go quietly.

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