’The hail of bullets was simply awful…’

Private Ray Baker, a Gympie man, penned a detailed account of his landing on the Gallipolli Peninsula on 25 April, 1915, a day that is infamous in Australian wartime history, to his sweetheart, Vera Johns.

A letter to ’Dear Vera’ from Gympie man Ray Baker graphically details the most famous episode in Australia’s wartime history […]

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