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LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR W. BIRDWOOD—"THE SOUL OF ANZAC."
Frontispiece.
AUSTRALIA IN ARMS
SOLDIER-SONGS
FROM ANZAC
By Signaller TOM SKEYHILL.
With an Introduction by Major-General J. W. McCAY, C. B.
Paper cover, 1s. net.
Private Skeyhill trained in Egypt from January 1915 to April 1915. He landed with his battalion on Anzac Beach on 25th April, taking part in the fighting of that first fierce week. The next week he was with his battalion at Cape Helles, and shared in the well-known charge by the 2nd Brigade on the 8th May, when a high-explosive shell burst beside him and sent him to hospital, a blind and helpless man. There are hopes that eventually he may recover his sight, but at best the time must be long. His poems breathe love of country and of courage, the spirit of battle, soldiers' comradeship, and sympathy for the fallen.
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD., LONDON
AUSTRALIA IN ARMS
A NARRATIVE OF THE AUSTRALASIAN IMPERIAL
FORCE AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENT AT ANZAC
BY
PHILLIP F. E. SCHULER
Special War Correspondent of The Age, Melbourne
WITH 9 MAPS AND 53 ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD.
ADELPHI TERRACE
First published in 1916
(All rights reserved)
TO
THE MOTHERS OF THE HEROES
WHO HAVE FALLEN
I HUMBLY DEDICATE THESE RECORDS OF
GLORIOUS DEEDS
TO THE MOTHER COUNTRY
Because you trusted them, and gave them dower
Of your own ancient birthright, Liberty—
Forwent the meagre semblances of power
To win the deepest truth and loyalty—
Now, when these seeming slender roots are tried
Of all your strength, behold, they do not move;
The stripling nations hasten to your side,
Impelled, as children should be, by their love.
And who shall grudge the pride of Motherhood
To this old Northern Kingdom of the sea?
Indeed our fathers' husbandry was good;
This is the harvest of our history;
Yet boast not. Rather pray we be not found
Unworthy those great men who tilled the ground.
F. D. Livingstone