‘Thrilling story of Australasian valour’ by Ellis Ashmead Bartlett The Sydney Mail, 12 May 1915

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‘Heroes of the Dardanelles’

Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett was the war correspondent for the British Daily Telegraph. His reports of the Gallipoli landing were the first to be published in Australian newspapers, including the pictorial weekly, The Sydney Mail which incorporated portraits of some of the early Australian casualties. Bartlett’s stirring descriptions of this ‘race of athletes’ who ‘proceeded to scale the cliffs’ helped shape the ANZAC legend which has endured for one hundred years.