Australia in Palestine

World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia; World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Palestine
AUSTRALIA IN PALESTINE

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[Illustration:

  GENERAL SIR EDMUND H. ALLENBY, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.
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                               AUSTRALIA
                              IN PALESTINE

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                                 SYDNEY
                         ANGUS & ROBERTSON LTD.
                         89 CASTLEREAGH STREET
                                  1919

                         _Nineteenth Thousand_

                               Printed by
           W. C. Penfold & Co. Ltd., 183 Pitt Street, Sydney
               London Agents: The Oxford University Press

                             TO THE MEMORY
                                   OF
                            FALLEN COMRADES

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                             Editors’ Note

This book owes its publication to the warm interest taken in its
initiation by a Committee comprised of the G.O.C., A.I.F., in Egypt; the
G.O’s.C. Anzac and Australian Mounted Divisions and Brigades, and a
number of other senior A.I.F. officers; and, later, to the generosity of
the many contributors of paintings, sketches, photographs, verse and
prose.

“Australia in Palestine” is in no sense intended as a complete picture
of the Australians’ part in the Great Campaign. It is merely a Soldiers’
Book, produced almost entirely by soldiers in the field under active
service conditions to send to their friends in Australia and abroad. An
edition has also been published for sale to the general public, and any
profits derived from it will go to one of the A.I.F. funds.

Thanks are due to our many contributors, and in particular to Mr. James
McBey, the Official British Artist in Palestine, for his fine portrait
of General Allenby (specially drawn for this book) and other sketches;
to Captain Hodgkinson, British Press Officer, for permission to use many
British official photographs; to Mr. Jeapes, British Official Cinema
Photographer, for the loan of many snapshots; and to Sergeant E. A.
Hodda, A.I.F., who took charge of the business arrangements, and to
whose keen interest and ability our obligation is substantial.

We have also to thank Major N. D. Barton, 7th A.L.H. Regiment, and
Messrs. H. M. Somer and Sydney Ure Smith for the valuable assistance
they have given as Committee of Publication in Australia.

                                               H. S. GULLETT } Editors.
                                               CHAS. BARRETT }

                                               DAVID BARKER, Art Editor.

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                                CONTENTS

                                                                    Page
 Preface (Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. G. Chauvel)                           xiii.

 Fighting for Palestine (H. S. Gullett)                                1

 Anthem Bells (“Gerardy”)                                             60

 Palestine Poppies (Charles Barrett)                                  61
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