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Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the British war correspondent, visited Anzac on 16th August 1915.

Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the British war correspondent, visited Anzac on 16th August 1915. “Nevinson, Lawrence and I left for Anzac at 11 a.m. I met Ross and Schulyer on board. On arriving I went out to Godley’s headquarters, and had a long talk with him, and he explained the whole of the operations of his corps to me. He was loud in his praise of the manner in which the Dominion soldiers had fought.  Afterwards, accompanied by Ross, I climbed to the highest point now held by our troops up the Rhododendron Ridge, which gives access to Chunuk Bair, the scene of some of the most stubborn fighting during the advance.  The climb was steep and very dangerous, owing to the enemy’s snipers, who commanded almost the whole valley from Chunuk Bair, Hill Q, and Koja Chemen Tepe. Signboards, giving advice to those who were obliged to follow this Via Dolorosa of so much human suffering, had been put up. Each of them marked the spot where men had been killed or wounded.  “Keep well to y...