Episode 2.8 Chats Beachy Bill and other nuisances on Gallipoli
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English - November 09, 2016 00:30 - 30 minutes - 29.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsHistory Society & Culture Personal Journals australia wwi worldwar1 diary digger greatwar history memoir Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Percy describes his time at Anzac Cove dodging shells from "Beachy Bill", chats, Turkish bullets, diarrhoea and the 'flu. Did any of these horrors get him? Listen and find out! Here's a "snippet":
After tea, I went for a walk up to Lone Pine. I met a couple of casualties on the way. They were 24th battalion men. A "75" had got four of them. The first one I met was wounded in several places, and the next was dead. He lay still and silent on the stretcher, and it made me feel quite "skeery" for a while.