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On August 7th 1915, men of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade staged one of the most tragic, brave and futile charges of the First World War. Seeking to break out of the Anzac position at Gallipoli they attempted to storm an extraordinarily strong Turkish position, defended by artillery, machineguns and thousands of men, using nothing but fixed bayonets and raw courage. The first wave of Light Horsemen were killed within seconds of leaving their trench, yet over the course of the next few minutes, three more lines went over the top, across the bodies of their dead and dying comrades, only to be instantly cut down themselves. All of them knew they were about to die. None held back. It was a massacre...
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Contains: Keats, four sonnets (two transcribed by Haydon and two by Mary); Wordsworth, three sonnets (transcribed by Haydon), and sonnets and poems by George Stanley (2), Francis Bennoch, Elizabeth Barrett, Mary Russell Mitford (2), John Hamilton Reynolds, Walter Farquhar Hook, Sir John Hanmer, baron, and with an anonymous sonnet in Italian.