The Letter

The War

25th March 1995

Dear Mum and Dad

Soldiers on board - some too old and some too young - getting ready for whatever they have to do to survive and sacrifice their lives to protect their country and families.  

Day 1.Firstly, we  arrived at Gallipoli, Turkey at midnight. Some were already dead once we arrived. Next we had to dig our trenches at exactly 6x5 feet deep.

We had breakfast on the beach at first then we went back to our trenches. Not long until it was midday and bombs started dropping down and some bullet shots came out of nowhere. Some of our troops were killed during the bombings that were dropping down. Some were wounded and were SCREAMING “HELP” as loud as a rooster in the morning.

Day 2. All of the troops were lined up trying to hide away from the enemies. We heard this weird noise then some Turkish soldiers started running towards us. We had our guns shooting them while they were running towards us. Luckily none of us had died.

Some were dead as a moa but at the end of the day even though some had died I was still happy that I had survived. It was challenging fighting them.

From Elizabeth