It was here he encountered Mr. Dainopoulos, bound home from a business trip to Egypt; where he had been buying up cheap the stocks of ship-chandlers who had been caught by the sudden withdrawal of troops from the dardanelles for service in the north.
"Command"
William McFee
An Australian officer, who was through the dardanelles and the Somme and Bullecourt, a slim, small-sized Australian, with a delicate, clean-cut face, thoughtful and grave, with a fine light in his eyes, was helping a wounded lad on to a stretcher when a shell came over his head, killed the boy, but left the officer unscathed.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
A V.C. officer of the dardanelles was killed as he went back wounded on a stretcher.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs