Soldier explains how outside of the fighting is the hardest part of Gallipoli

Soldier explains how outside of the fighting is the hardest part of Gallipoli

2nd Lieutenant CW Saunders talks about the grueling work that soldiers have to go through that makes fighting at Gallipoli that much worse.

Pugsley, Christopher, and Lockyer, John. The Anzacs at Gallipoli: a Story for Anzac Day. Auckland: Reed, 1999, p224.

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

“The actual fighting at Anzac was easiest of all. The fatigue work was enormous, colossal. Imagine a man with two kerosene tins full of water tied together with a belt and slung over the shoulder climbing for 800 meters up the grades, slipping back, up and on again, the heat of the sun terrible, bullets and shells everywhere and as often as happened, a bullet and shrapnel hitting the tins and bursting it and the priceless fluid running away just as he had scrambled almost to the top. Nothing for it but to go all the way down again for some more. No, I think everyone was who was at Anzac will agree with me that the hardest fighting done there was by the water and rations fatigue.