The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme)
Author | : David Fallon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1918 |
ISBN-10 | : WISC:89100033729 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This book is an account of the author's battlefield experiences at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. Fallon was a pre-war regular (Northumberland Fusiliers) who, when war broke out, was a staff sergeant instructor at the Australian Royal Military College in Duntroon. Transferred to the Australian army he took part in the Gallipoli landings on 25 April 1915, which he describes in gory detail, as he does the rest of the fighting till he was evacuated in December. Back in the British army he was commisioned into the Buckingham Battalion (TF) of the O & B LI (145th Bde/48th Division) with which he fought on the Western Front till badly wounded at the end of 1916.