Zero Hour (24 page)

‘a complete battalion had been wiped out', quoted in Bean, Vol. VI, page 240

‘They're not Americans…' quoted in Treadwell, page 213

‘keep your mouths shut', quoted in Stewart, page 418

‘being behind a curtain…' quoted in Bean, Vol. VI, page 531

‘a wonderful sound…' quoted in Harper,
Dark Journey
, page 361

‘everything is lost', quoted in Bean, Vol. VI, page 614

‘sure he did not know…' quoted in Harper,
Dark Journey
, page 442

‘lot of bushrangers', quoted in Bean,
Anzacs to Amiens
, page 481

‘it all happened like…' quoted in Bean,
Anzacs to Amiens
, page 482

‘burnt the grass and earth black', quoted in Stewart, page 479

‘one minute', quoted in Wilson, page 210

‘Which way?', quoted in Bean, Vol. VI, page 906

‘All I can say is you…' quoted in Bean, Vol. VI, page 926

‘put in to do', quoted in Bean, Vol. VI, page 933

‘recoil of thousands of guns…' quoted in Downing, page 176

‘sick of the war and had…' quoted in Bean, Vol. VI, page 1036

‘it was just a relief, we didn't…' quoted in Boyack & Tolerton, page 240

‘everyone was so dog tired …' quoted in Tolerton, page 188

‘Fancy no more shells…' quoted in Boyack, page 88

‘it all seemed unreal…' quoted in Mitchell, page 278

‘The fighting is finished…' quoted in Wilson, page 227

Chapter 12

‘Fern Seed' (extract), quoted in MacKenzie, Vol. V, page 177

‘first to come…' quoted in Bean, Vol. VI, page 1058

‘was just a soldier who'd come…' quoted in Boyack & Tolerton, page 243

‘repair boots, class wool…' quoted in Lee, page 127

‘came back, having lost an arm…' quoted in Boyack, page 71

‘Civvie life's a bleedin' failure…' quoted in Gammage, page 271

‘was so aggressively Australian', quoted in Dennis et al., page 241

‘I gave my son, he gave his life…' quoted in
www.dva.gov.au/commems_oawg/commemorations/education/Documents/Western_Front.pdf
, page 92.

‘all a great pity…' quoted in Carthew, page 238