About Voices of Gallipoli

An international project of remembrance.

[Voices of Gallipoli] is largely a collection of [verbatim] narratives which tell how humble and mostly simple New Zealanders lived and died on Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula for eight months in the year of 1915.

The war veterans’ testimonies were taken and recorded by one of New Zealand’s finest writers - Maurice Shadbolt. They began as research for his play Once on Chunuk Bair. The veterans were interviewed in the early 1980s (nearly seventy years after the events, sensations and feelings they describe) but their recollections are clear, moving and valuable.

These are the men.

• Tony Fagan

• Henry Lewis

• Hartley Palmer

• Russell Weir

• Dan Curham

• George Skerret

• Harvey Johns

• Charlie Clark

• John Skinner

• Bill East

• Joe Gasparich

• Vic Nicholson

Today, the primary way to access their oral testimonies is via the book. You can buy it here (among other places online).

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