Two songs by Eric Bogle, in Remembrance:
Greenfields of France (also called No Man's Land and Willie McBride)
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The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (above) also by Eric Bogle, which is more to do with Gallipoli and the repatriation of a crippled Digger.
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My Grandfather, Staff Sergeant Leo Coates (above standing) in 1915. He worked at the 1st Australian "Stationary" Hospital (but still a field hospital). This was situated at Mudros, on the Mediterranean island of Lemnos, near Gallipoli. Here Leo's doing an X-ray - looking for a bullet in a wounded Anzac's leg. (The photo was donated by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - Photo courtesy oof the Australian War Memorial Archive).
Leo then shifted to Gallipoli later in 1915, where the field hospital was shelled by the Turks - because the Turks knew the Aussies were hiding ammunition in some of the hospital tents!
Leo Coates was involved in early mobile X-ray machine development. Then, after he returned to Australia, he helped develop and operate permanent veterans' hospital X-ray machines.
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