Anzac Soldiers

The Deadliest Night

25 March 1915

Dear Aunty Emma

We landed in Gallipoli on the 25th of April. It was a dark and a dreadful night. Guns were shooting all over the place.

Suddenly after hours of fighting we found a place to build our trenches and they were 6 x 5 feet. When we walked out of our trenches we shot loads of  Turkish soldiers who were waiting outside for us. We saw that they had killed thousands of our people. We climbed back into our trenches to go to sleep but we couldn’t because we were being attacked by the enemies.

We got out our rockets, tanks and machine guns. We started the battle, we fought for our lives. Hundreds of the Turkish soldiers died and were killed. But a lot of our soldiers were killed and injured.

I was frightened of how many of our soldiers died and  were injured, but I was more scared that I was going to be one of them.

From Mikayla