[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]
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| General Birdwood, "the Soul of Anzac" | [Frontispiece] |
| Australian Infantry Training at Broadmeadows | [14] |
| Troops Leaving Brisbane | [20] |
| The Australians returning to Camp at Mena, in Egypt | [48] |
| Australian Soldiers at the Foot of the Pyramids | [50] |
| Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for the Commonwealth, Reviewing the Australian Expeditionary Force at Mena Camp, Egypt | [52] |
| Transports bearing the Australasians to Anzac Cove. | [62] |
| The Landing at Anzac Cove on Sunday, April 25, 1915 | [66] |
| Shrapnel bursting over Anzac Cove | [70] |
| Roll-call on Brighton Beach. The Sad Scene after an Engagement | [80] |
| Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for the Australian Commonwealth, 1914-15 | [90] |
| General James McCay, commanding 2nd Brigade, Australian Infantry | [100] |
| The New Zealanders Reviewed at Heliopolis | [110] |
| General Bridges, who commanded the 1st Expeditionary Force from Australia | [116] |
| General Monash, Commander of the 4th Brigade, Australian Infantry | [122] |
| Australian Field Artillery in Action | [124] |
| Map showing the stretch of Gallipoli Peninsula from Gaba Tepe to Suvla Bay | [134] |
| A Battery of Australian Field Artillery going into Action | [162] |
| Sergt.-Major Wynn, a Typical Trooper of the Australian Light Horse | [174] |
| A Battalion of New Zealand Mounted Rifles | [182] |
| General Legge, who commanded the Second Division | [218] |
| General Sir Newton Moore, in Charge of the Australasian Depôt at Weymouth | [240] |
| The Valley of Death | [248] |
| Captain Richardson of the 1st Brigade | [252] |
| A New South Wales Battalion, ready for the Front | [304] |
| The Last March through Sydney Streets | [310] |
| General Sir A. J. Godley commanding the New Zealanders and the 4th Brigade, Australian Infantry | [316] |
| Farewell to the Troops in Melbourne | [324] |
| The Canterbury Section of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force | [326] |
| The Australian Submarines AE 1 and AE 2, both lost in the First Year of War | [346] |
| Rear-Admiral Sir George Patey, commanding the Australian Squadron | [348] |
| H.M.A.S. Australia in Sydney Harbour | [356] |
| The Governor-General of Australia | [364] |
| Australian Guns in Action before Sari Bair | [390] |
THE LONG BLACK SHIPS
[CHAPTER I]
THE LONG BLACK SHIPS
On November 1st, 1914, there steamed out of the harbour of Albany, in Western Australia, three long lines of great ocean steamships. At their head proudly steamed the Australian cruiser Melbourne; the procession was brought up in the rear by another Australian cruiser, the Sydney. So the long black ships, forty in all, set out from the last port of Australia in the golden Southern spring, bearing the army of Australasia to the Antipodes in the Old World.