From Gallipoli to Palestine provides the reader with a view of the historic
Anzac operations at Gallipoli, then the successful campaign in Egypt and
Palestine.
Gary Clunie sailed from New Zealand in December 1914 with the Wellington
mounted Rifles Regiment and did not return home until 1919. For much of the next
few years at war Gary maintained a diary in which he recorded daily events,
however, of even greater importance were the numerous, often frank and
apparently uncensored letters he wrote to his older brother Will, a veteran of
the Boer War.
Garry Clunie's was writings are an unvarnished and fascinating story of war,
told through the eyes of a young farmer who had enlisted in the Army to serve
his country and the Empire at a time of need.
The book is profusely illustrated with photographs taken by Sergeant Clunie
during his service in the Middle East and complements this soldier's story of
life in the Gallipoli trenches then in the sands of the Sinai desert and finally
in the hills of Palestine.
Contents:
A Grandson's Pilgrimage
Editor's Preface
Report of Service of G.T. Clunie
1. To Egypt
2. Gallipoli: Walker's Ridge
3. The Struggle for Chunuk Bair
4. Evacuation from Anzac
5. Back in the Sands of Egypt
6. Wounded at Bel el Abd
7. 1919: On to Rafa
8. The Struggle for Gaza
9. Allenby in Command
10. Action Around Beersheba
11. The Final Year
12. The Abu Tellul Action
13. Taking to the Skies
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
