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"Over There" with the Australians - Kindle edition by R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh) Knyvett. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or. Over There with the Australians (Illustrated Edition) [Captain R. Hugh Knyvett] on bahana-line.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. First published in April.
I loved the humour and their ability to overcome adversity. No wonder the Poms couldn't handle them. Would have been a real culture shock.
A good read from a different respective on world war 1. We all know that they were there but do not hear about how they reacted and survived in the great war. Chosen as I am reading Anzac history. Rated highly because of war detail and trench life and specific incidents.
Also experiences when injured. Best is this attitude to people and life,compassion and understanding politics,and human inhumanity and behaviour Recommended to all who want to learn. Pretty mush like most other soldier survivors of the conflict. This isn't great literature. Very insightful on the fate of the Australian contingents during the war. Their personalities, interactions, and friendships are described under the most stressful of conditions.
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In the early dawn we disentrained at Koubbeh and after straightening ourselves out from having been cramped up in those horse-boxes, we started our march of about ten miles, carrying full pack, to the camp at Zeitoun. At any rate, he never left the ship while in port, and he seemed to have no relatives. The Bendigoans will never forgive me for having failed to appreciate the fact that their Golden City was far ahead even of Melbourne. There was really not much excitement in the town and many of us just stayed late for the excitement of breaking the law without being caught. There were rumors that it cost the Australian Government a tidy sum of money, but the burning of those pest-houses must have risen like incense to heaven, and one very good effect it had, about which there will be no dispute—it put the fear of God into the Gyppo, and Australian soldiers after that even singly and in small groups received nothing worse than black looks. The outbacker, however, solved the problem without waiting for the government to make up its mind. One boy wrote home that one of the ship's anchors had brought up a wheel from the chariot of Pharaoh, and his mother had replied that she was glad he was visiting such historic country, but when he later on told her that "Big Lizzie" was firing shells twenty-seven miles at the Dardanelles, she wrote him that she was afraid life in the army was making him exaggerate things and that he should keep strictly to the truth!
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Alexa Actionable Analytics for the Web. This war has done more to make known to each other the people of the world than any other event in history. Many of the French people had hardly heard of Australia, but hereafter they will never forget the name of the land whence came those stalwart boys who marched singing through their country; who went to war with laughter, and when out of the trenches were ever ready to give a hand with the crops. One of the most self-forgetful actions ever performed was by Sergeant Ross. We found a man on the German barbed wire, who was so badly wounded that when we tried to pick him up, one by the shoulders and the other by the feet, it almost seemed that we would pull him apart.
The blood was gushing from his mouth, where he had bitten through lips and tongue, so that he might not jeopardize, by groaning, the chances of some other man who was less badly wounded than he. He begged us to put him out of his misery, but we were determined we would get him his chance, though we did not expect him to live. But the sergeant threw himself down on the ground and made of his body a human sledge.
So anxious were we to get to safety that we did not notice the condition of the man underneath until we got into our trenches; then it was hard to see which was the worst wounded of the two. The war was to them like a catastrophe in another world, and Australians did not travel farther to fight than in their imagination did the sons of this village when they went to the trenches less than a hundred miles away. I discovered one day how deep the knife of war had cut when I spoke to a grandmother and daughter working a large farm, as with dumb, uncomprehending pain in their eyes they showed me the picture of son-in-law and husband who would never return.
Rights of peoples and the things for which nations strive had no meaning to these two, but from out the dark had come a hand and dragged from them the fulness of life, leaving only its empty shell. Over There with the Australians Publisher: I see a spot! DKS on August 20, at 8: Vet lit is now being joined by those writing from Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is an honorable tradition. Shelley on August 20, at 9: Lisa Hill on August 20, at 9: Over There with The Australians was an interesting contrast with King of Tuzla, and both books show the perils to be avoided. The veteran needs thoughtful editing IMO. Knyvett wrote his book while the war was still in its ghastly stalemate, and he is full of hatred for Germany and the Germans.
They might have been if an editor had taken some hard decisions…. Hello Cass, thanks for dropping by and taking the time to comment. Lisa Hill on December 27, at 2: I am just finishing reading the book which I thoroughly enjoy , and came across this website while researching Captain Knyvett. I own an original edition from which I purchased from an antique book dealer who used to attend gun shows on Long Island , NY. In no way did it disturb my modern sensibilities ,…….
Knyvett calls it the way he sees it , and his honesty is refreshing in this world of platitudes and political correctness. This is , after all , a book , which one is free to stop reading at any page , as many of us have removed videos from our VCRs after 20 or 30 minutes. John Pellicciaro camarasaur1 on September 4, at 8: Hello John, and thank you for sharing your thoughts.
His attitude to New Guinea was, like that of many others, patronising and racist; his justification for Australian actions in the Middle East is offensive. Lisa Hill on September 4, at You are commenting using your WordPress.
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