E-text prepared by Elaine Walker, Barbara Kosker, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 25341-h.htm or 25341-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/3/4/25341/25341-h/25341-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/3/4/25341/25341-h.zip) +--------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | | Text enclosed by equal signs was in bold face in the | | original (=bold=). | +--------------------------------------------------------+ THE 28TH A RECORD OF WAR SERVICE WITH THE AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE, 1915-1919 VOLUME I. EGYPT, GALLIPOLI, LEMNOS ISLAND, SINAI PENINSULA by COLONEL H. B. COLLETT, C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D. First C.O. of the Battalion With Foreword by the Archbishop of Perth, Chaplain-General to the Forces [Illustration: ON THE SQUARE WITHIN THE WALLS OF SALADIN'S CITADEL. 30th August, 1915. The Moqattam Hills and Napoleon's Fort in the distant background.] Published by the Trustees of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth 1922 [Copyright] by Authority: Fred. Wm. Simpson, Government Printer, Perth. Blocks Supplied by Read & Mckinley, Art Engravers, Perth. CONTENTS. FOREWORD: By The Most Rev. C. O. L. Riley, O.B.E., D.D., LL.D., V.D., Archbishop of Perth, Chaplain-General to the Forces. IX. PREFACE XI. CHRONOLOGY XIII. CHAPTER I. THE GENESIS. W.A. in the South African War--The outbreak in 1914--Karrakatta and Blackboy Hill--The first units to embark--Scheme for raising new brigades--The 28th Battalion authorised--Enrolment of personnel-- Selection and appointment of Officers and N.C.Os.--Specialists wanted--Equipping--Hard training--An accident--Hours off duty--Visit from H.E. the Governor--Medical precautions--The March through Perth --Final preparations for departure for the Front. =Page 1.= CHAPTER II. EN ROUTE.