Gaza Ridge single work   poetry   war literature   "In spring the blood red poppies blow"
Issue Details: First known date: 1943... 1943 Gaza Ridge
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  • Author's note: One of the Australian Light Horse's greatest battles raged over the spot described here and on which location we built our 6th A.G.H. twenty years or so later. This poem is a word picture of the Ridge as it really is.
    Written 6th A.G.H. Gaza Ridge, 10 August 1942.

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