THE GALLIPOLI LANDING
TRIBUTE TO THE 29th DIVISION Press Association. GISBORNE', April 25. ' “Some of us have lived to curse thv word Anzac,” declared Captain Turnbull, D. 5.0., when proposing ,a toasi at the Anzac dinner to-night. “We New Zealanders and Australians 1 may have done a great deal at Anzao, but,, as a matter of fact, we did absolutely nothing compared with that incomparable 29th Division —{cheers) —who landed at Cape ‘Helles. There are some of you who, like myself, saw Cape Helles a week or ten days after the dear old 29th landed. It was something that can hardly be realised, much less described. I am proud to belong to the same nation, although I am a New Zealander and they axe Britons. Tdon’t for a moment belittle our landing at Anzac, but, compared with the work of the 29ths ? where barbed wire was run. out deep into the sea and the water ran red with blood—well, I take my hat off to those fellows. (Cheers.) We of the Anzacs may have done well, as I have said, but we have grown ashamed to see our deeds extolled from end s to end of ibe Empire, while the incomparably, greater service of such English troops as I have mentioned goes practically unnoticed.” (Cheers and prolonged applause.)
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9955, 26 April 1918, Page 4
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