A. J. Boyd,
A.N.Z.A.C.

FOOTNOTES:

[20] It may be necessary to explain that every man in the Gallipoli Peninsula was within easy range of the Turkish artillery. For anything except a hospital to use a tent would have been to give an open invitation to shrapnel. “The nearest shops” were about three miles behind the Turkish lines.

ARCADIA

I’ve stayed in many a boarding-house,

From good, to fair, to rotten,

Seeking the comfort of a home

With all its cares forgotten.

In pubs I’ve dwelt and drowned the cares

Which canker life by meeting