Embossed postcard of the flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand, the first flag of New Zealand, used until the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
Neuseeland-Nouvelle-ZélandeNew Zealand (German and French)Reverse:Logo: HGZ & Co. No. 11658. Dép.
"The mates we left behind back in the ravine, they're still on Gallipoli. Colonel Malone is too. When there was a roll call of the Wellingtons, after the battle, they reckoned there were only forty-seven fit men left of all the 700 who went up Chunuk Bair on the morning of August the eighth.I got taken off Gallipoli two days after, on the tenth of August. I never was in any other war. That one was enough for me. It never did anything, never gained nothing, but I been thinking about it ever since, all the years of my life, most of all that day on Chunuk Bair."
Excerpt from an interview by Maurice Shadbolt of Corporal Charlie Clark who served on Gallipoli with the New Zealand Wellington Battalion. Their mission on August 8, 1915, was to take the summit of Chunuk Bair, which they did after an Allied bombardment. Men who reached the summit could see the Narrows of the Dardanelles, and might have had the hope the attack would continue across the peninsula and cut off the Turks. Looking to the north, they could see the British troops who had landed at Suvla Bay the night of August 6, who did little against a thin Turkish defense. Clark was wounded in the leg by a Turkish bullet that left a wound so big he couldn't cover it with his hand. The ravine to which Clark dragged himself early in the day soon filled with 200 wounded with no water, no medical attention, under bombardment, and with little chance to make their way down the hill.
Voices of Gallipoli by Maurice Shadbolt, page 67, copyright © 1988 Maurice Shadbolt, publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, publication date: 1988
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