THE DARDANELLES
440 8.C.—1915 AD. Some time ago Dr. Bean, the Australian historian, had his attention drawn to a slab of Pentelic marble in the National Museum at Athens, which related to the campaign in the Hellespont, about B.C. 440. The following translation of the Greek inscription by Dr. Bean, shows that it might also be the Australians who fell there, more than 2000 years later: “These by the Dardanelles laid down their glorious youth in battle, and won renown for their land so that their enemy groaned bearing away the harvest of war, and for themselves they founded a deathless monument of valour." , Through the courtesy of the Greek authorities, a cast has been made of the inscription and is being forwarded to the Australian War Memorial, Melbourne. A description of the slab is given in the “Manual of Greek Historical Inscriptions.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3750, 1 May 1936, Page 11
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