Letter from Lieutenant F.H. Semple

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Letter from Lieutenant F.H. Semple

Description

Lieutenant Semple talks about clean water, or the lack there of, that soldiers were able to get at Gallipoli.

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

Source

Gammage, Bill. The Broken Years; Australian Soldiers in the Great War. Canberra: Australian National UP, 1974, p88.

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‘One of the greatest difficulties here is the shortage of water…I had the first shave for a week and my face was coated with dust and grime I had got through all the recent fighting and trench digging. After I had finished the water in my mess tin it was muddy and I washed my face in that and then had my tea out of the same tin.”

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soldier shaving.jpeg

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Citation

http://www.anzacsofgallipoli.com/daily-life-at-gallipoli1.html, “Letter from Lieutenant F.H. Semple,” Battle of Gallipoli, accessed March 28, 2024, https://battleofgallipoli.omeka.net/items/show/14.