I am using this blog to showcase the World War 1 diary of my Great Uncle Bert... it's a long slow process to re-type hundreds and hundreds of pages. If you are new here, paste this link into your browser to get to the start of the diary: http://unclebertsdiary.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/uncle-berts-diary-foreword-chapter-1.html Goal: 690 pages
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Lessons along the way
Am really enjoying re-reading Uncle Bert's diary - I've read ahead a couple of paragraphs... The next part I will type starts April 25, 1917 and Bert will talk about Anzac day and marching through Adelaide to commemorate the Gallipoli landing! I'm amazed that Anzac day & the ill fated Gallipoli landing was commemorated so soon after it happening. I had assumed (wrongly!) that it would have come to being acknowledged and honoured after the War was over... I'm learning as I go :) Here's a link to a wikipedia entry about the Gallipoli Campaign
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