23rd June 1915

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Beach work as usual all

day. Shrapnell & precision

shells bursting along beach

killing several & wounding

many. Another Horse

barge punctured.

Transport ships &

pinnaces are being

shelled, hit no damage done.

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Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915. Australian soldiers remove the carcasses of dead horses or mules which are lying in shallow water on the beach at Anzac. The animals were probably killed by artillery fire.

Reference: Australian War Memorial

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Diary of an ANZAC soldier. A WWI diary found in 2022. One man's story, told 108 years later.

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