The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-12-11
Anzac Soldier and Veteran of
Two Wars Tells Graphic
Story of Inflated Gal
lipoli Expedition.
SAW SERVICE ON
WESTERN THEATRE
Speaks Under Auspices of Coun-
Gil of Defense Wounded
Several Times; Finally
Forced to Retire

Before an audience that filled the
Methodist church 10 its almost ca
pacity, Sergeant-Major Robert Car
ME, veteran of the Boer war and the
Great World war, in which he served
with an Anzac battalion until three
times wounded and incapacitated for
further duty in the field, delivered a
lecture in this city last night
The young Australian was warmly
received in this city. He wears
three medals, two of which were
awarded by the British government
for gallantry in the Boer war, and a
special medal for a feat of valor as
the landing at Gallipoli, where, as
the leader of one hundred aud seven
ty volunteers from the Australian
ranks, he had the honor Of dragging
to the heights the first gun planted
on Turkish soil. Speaking Of the ia
nous Gallipoli campaign the ser
geant-major said:
Now that the war has been won
Ehe Gallipoli expedition seems more
like a nightmare Retreats on the
western front were not defeats OF
plans, but were made necessary by
the superior training and preparation
of an enemy fully supplied with mu-
nitions.
With Gallipoli, it was the plan it.
self that seemed to have gone wrong.
An army was disembarked in the
darkest hour Of the early morning.
AS the boats were unloaded and left
the transports all at once the shore
and the hills beyond were aflame
with artillery and the water was
deluged with shells Of all calibers
THE men tried to make their way
to land only to find themselves
barred by wire ontangloments placed
under water Many got to land by
swimming under water, and thus
missing the treachorous trap, coming
up on the other side, and all in regu-
lation equipment The landing was
made on a sandy beach under fire
from the hills beyond
And, despite all this, the landing
was made, the hills stormed and cap
tured, artillery removed from the !
ships, and incredible feats accom-. |
plished
"One hundred and forty thousand |
Australian soldiers with many Off !
GERS made the supreme sacrifice at |
Gallipoi At one time the condi-
tions were so perplexing from the
stencil of the dead comrades Of both |
armies that an armistice was brought |
about in order that the dead might |
b9 buried That the dying and I
wpunded suffered from lack of medi-
cal attention, proper food and cloth
ing but, despite the many difficulties, |
fought a battle almost unparalleled !
in all history"
The Australian fighter also describ- !
ed his fighting on tine western front |
in France, where he and other sur
vivors Of the Gallipoli campaign, were
sent after that battle He fought at |
Albert. first saw the tanks at Com |
bles, and was wounded at Armen.
tieres, after which he was invalided |
out of the service and has partially |
recovered from injuries to the eye
sight and spinal column.
Sergeant-Maior Carnie made |
strong appeal for the American Red
Cross, and emphatically attacked pro |
Germanism. The foremost orator
that ever uttered a word, or the |
greatest writer ever produced by the |
world, could not coin a phrase that
might fully express my thoughts and
love for the Red Cross" the speaker
said.
That the mission Of the American |
Red Cross will not lie ended until
every American boy in uniform on |
foreign soil is safely and ccmforta-
~ situated back in the United
States, was the belief expressed by
The sergeant-Maior in his plea for