Letter from Colonel Herbert Collett

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Letter from Colonel Herbert Collett

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Colonel Collett of the 28th Battalion talks about the sleeping conditions in the trenches at Gallipoli.

Source

Reid, Richard. Gallipoli 1915. Sydney: ABC for the Australian Broadcasting, 2002, p106.

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http://www.anzacsofgallipoli.com/daily-life-at-gallipoli1.html

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“A few had bivvies, excavated in the walls of trenches, but most men had only the floor of the trench upon which to lie. Here, clothed in their overcoats and wrapped in their single blankets, they slumbered – only to be rudely awakened now and then by the pressure on some part of their anatomy of the feet of a passenger to or from the front line…In the front trenches, where garrisons were relieved by the supports every 24 hours, sleep was, theoretically, not to be thought of. However, the normal man felt that at some time during the 24 hours it was good to close his tired eyes – if only for a few minutes.”

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“Letter from Colonel Herbert Collett,” Battle of Gallipoli, accessed March 29, 2024, https://battleofgallipoli.omeka.net/items/show/13.