GABA TEPE.
May I be permitted (writes Mr. Geo. B. Davy) to quote from memory the following lines, wjhich breathe the very spirit of Australia, and New Zealand at G&ba | Tope. The occasion on which they were written, was the charge of the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers on. the heights of Alma, 20th September, 1854. England had been long at peace, and it is doubtful whether a man of tho 23rd had ever before been in action : — Tho' all unused by war to bear The battle's deadly brunt, Tho ancient heart of Wales was there Still rushing to the front. Their 'blood flowed freely down those steeps, But tho proud goal was won, And tho moon shone on silent hoaps Beyond tho Russian gun. The naino of tho writer I forget, but surely no deed of arms ever found nobler expression. That the man behind the hostile ffun to-day should bo tho Turk l« oo» oi fcha strongest ironies s^biiiory.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 18
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