Word: gallipoli
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...February 21, Mr. John Gallishaw will deliver an address, based on personal experience, on "Gallipoli...
...forces brushed aside, while the furious Kemal [Mustafa Kemal Pasha, now President of the Republic of Turkey] animated his fanatic soldiers and hurled them forward towards the battle." From this statement it can be easily inferred why, in Mr. Churchill's opinion, the British were defeated on the Gallipoli Peninsula...
...Farnsworth matter is divided into two classes. In the first are books on the War in general. Among these are such works as John Mansfield's "Gallipoli", "Heroes All", which contains brief sketches of the lives of all men decorated for bravery by the United States government; a work on the part played by New England men in France and another which deals with the achievements of aviators from New England...
...smoke of the Somme, and the polo players died putting their final ounce behind a bayonet. Australasians who watched America win at Auckland must have thought of Wilding, the giant who played so smashingly at Forest Hills the summer of 1914 and a few months later was gone at Gallipoli. Not far from a million British died in the field; the battle dead of little Australia alone equalled ours. Our rivals are too good sportsmen to mention the fact, but all the more reason why we should do so. These brave dead we cannot beat. New York Evening Post...
Lieutenant Gallishaw fought in the early part of the war with the British Forces at Gallipoli, and has set down his experiences there in his book, "Trenching at Gallipoli." He was graduated from St. Patrick's Hall School at St. Johns Newfoundland, and was a special student at the University the first half of 1914-15, the second half of 1915-16, and throughout the year in 1916-17. He went to France with the draft army and was wounded. Later, he was transferred here, taking command of Company...