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Sydney Loch. The Straits Impregnable
The Straits Impregnable
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE CALL
CHAPTER II. ENLISTED
CHAPTER III. TRAINING
CHAPTER IV. THE VOYAGE
CHAPTER V. IN EGYPT
CHAPTER VI. THE SOLDIER’S LIFE
CHAPTER VII. THE PASSING OF WINTER
CHAPTER VIII. MUDROS
CHAPTER IX. THE LANDING IN GALLIPOLI
CHAPTER X. IN THE FIRING LINE
CHAPTER XI. ACTION FRONT
CHAPTER XII. THE DAY’S BUSINESS
CHAPTER XIII. A PERILOUS EXPEDITION
CHAPTER XIV. DEATH AND THE BATTERY
CHAPTER XV. ROUTINE
CHAPTER XVI. A FLAG OF TRUCE
CHAPTER XVII. THE MARCH OF MONOTONY
CHAPTER XVIII. REALITIES
CHAPTER XIX. THE LAST OF ANZAC
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Sydney Loch
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I threw open the kitchen door, the sitting-room door, the bedroom door, the front door, and the sunlight tumbled into the house. Hat and coat went on to the table, and that was all the ceremony before business. Out came every drawer and open came every box; and in a heap on the floor fell papers and old letters. One or two bills which turned up I filed; all else travelled to the fireplace, where match and poker were sole mourners at the funeral. It took time, for I was thorough, and in the end it was too late to look for Ted. Instead, I went on to the verandah and sat down on the step, looking towards the river. The sun shone over the paddocks; but the afternoon had grown cooler.
There was little or no wind, so that things had become very still. A few birds whistled to one another in the trees behind the house; but the sheep were camped out of sight on the flats, and the bullocks fed in the scrub far away. Across the river, small figures moved to and fro. The Browns cut chaff by the willows, the Smithsons mended a fence by their cultivation. Over the hilltop, down the road, ran children home from school.
