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ANZAC DIGGERS |
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Ray Longmore, 103 "The Tunneller". Australia's oldest Anzac and Grand Old Man of the Clan, went straight from his farm to Gallipoli as a tunnel digger. After evacuation he fought at Villers-Bretonneux, where he was riddled with bullets from a machine gun one month before war ended. |
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Walter Parker, 103, "The Supply Man", was born in Sydney and enlisted at 18 carrying ammunition and water through the muddy trenches to troups at the Gallipoli front. |
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Jack Buntine, 102 "The Sniper", was born in Melbourne. He joined up at 18 as a knockabout station hand who lived with Aborigines in the Victorian bush after escaping from a violent German employer, to whom he had been sold as a farm hand at 10. |
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Doug Dibley, 101, Rotorua, NZ, "The Stretcher Bearer", enlisted as a seventeen year old office clerk serving as a stretcher bearer alongside Simpson and his donkey. |
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Frank Isaacs, 101, Perth, "The Orphan Soldier" was reared as an orphan since the age of 6. He enlisted in the infantry at 17 and was hit by shrapnel three times after charging ashore at Gallipoli - in the face, arm and leg. |
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Len Hall, 100, Perth, "The Light-horseman who rode with Lawrence of Arabia", joined at 16. He was the main gunner for the ill-fated charge of the Turkish stronghold at the Nek. He then rode with Henry Chauvel's legendary Lighthorsemen in the herioc charge that captured Beersheba. Len was badly wounded. He then rode with Lawrence of Arabia to liberate Damascus. |
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(Joseph) Les Leach, 99, sydney, "The Water Carrier" was born in Greymouth, NZ. He enlisted at 17, sailing to Gallipoli where he was appointed head water carrier. He was given a four gallon can that saved his life when it stopped a bullet. |
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Alex Campbell, 98, "The Kid Soldier", Tasmania, is the youngest Anzac alive. He joined up at 16 and sailed with the 15th Battalion for Gallipoli . |
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Fred Kelly, 100, "The Gunner" joined up at 18 serving at Gallipoli as a Vickers machine gunner. |
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Ted Matthews, 100. Sydney "Signaller and last Witness" enlisted and landed on Gallipoli April 25, 1915. |
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