Jan Theuninck
HILL 60
poppies’ blood
on the green grass
on the hills of mud
away they pass…
©Copyright 2006 by Jan Theuninck
Aerial view of Hill 60 Cemetery in 1923: The 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment came to Gallipoli in May 1915 and within three months had been reduced to 181 men. Many had been lost to enemy fire and even more to sickness and general debility. Their commanding officer, Major Carew Reynell, commented – “we are all ill to breaking point”