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By Emily Piesse
A cruise ship carrying nearly 3,000 passengers will depart Fremantle for Gallipoli later today, retracing the voyage taken by the Anzacs. The MSC Orchestra will stop in Albany, Sri Lanka and Egypt, before reaching Turkey mid-next month. It will sail close to shore on Anzac Day for the dawn service. Macquarie University Associate Professor Harvey Broadbent, who has been to Gallipoli more than 30 times since 1967, is one of four historians onboard providing lectures on Gallipoli. He said most passengers would have family members who served in the war. "It's the event, a hundred years, when people are determined to find out a lot more and experience the element of being there," he said. "Most people on the ship will not have been to Gallipoli before, and this is their opportunity." journey of respect for those onboard.
Passenger Geoff Nuske, who is from Adelaide, wanted to see where his great-grandfather fought. "My great-grandfather fought in Gallipoli, didn't die there but when Australian troops retreated, they went to France and fought the Germans - there he got a dose of mustard gas and had to come back to Australia [where] he died six months later," he said. "He fought there and made it back home, just." It is his first visit to the scene of the battle. "It's the historic 100 years and I just wanted to see where my forefathers had been and fought," Mr Nuske said. Wangaratta's Wendy Morgan booked to go on the trip when it was first advertised in 2010. "My grandfather fought in Gallipoli and in Flanders and so I wanted, out of respect for him, to go and see what he had to go through so that I can tell other members of my family, particularly grandchildren, about their great-grandfather," she said. "He didn't talk too much about it although, as a little girl, I asked him why he walked so funny and he said because he'd spent so many days and weeks in water above his knees and that made his legs difficult to use any more." Ms Morgan found some interesting background on her grandfather which he never revealed. "When I looked up the archives to find out about him, I didn't know that my grandfather could drive," she said. "As far as I knew, he had never driven in his life, he never had a car and my aunty always drove him everywhere and when I looked up his history, he was a private first and then he was promoted to be a driver, and I just sat there and thought that's extraordinary. "And all I could assume was that the horrors of war must have been so terrible for this poor man - what he saw when he was driving, that when he came back to civilisation, he more or less [said] I'm not going to do that again because it just brought back bad memories. "He never mentioned to any of us that he could drive. That was locked away I suspect, very deep." Ms Morgan said she was looking forward to the dawn service at Gallipoli. "There won't be a dry eye in the house, we'll all be very emotional but what a great experience and I'm taking Nana," she said. "I thought you can come with me Nan and see what Pa went through."
Ahoy, I personally feel these passengers will have a great trip and very emotional voyage.
So…………Anyone made any Plans for Anzac Day?
I am going to a dawn service, but probably will have a very quiet day, a day to reflection.
By Emily Piesse
A cruise ship carrying nearly 3,000 passengers will depart Fremantle for Gallipoli later today, retracing the voyage taken by the Anzacs. The MSC Orchestra will stop in Albany, Sri Lanka and Egypt, before reaching Turkey mid-next month. It will sail close to shore on Anzac Day for the dawn service. Macquarie University Associate Professor Harvey Broadbent, who has been to Gallipoli more than 30 times since 1967, is one of four historians onboard providing lectures on Gallipoli. He said most passengers would have family members who served in the war. "It's the event, a hundred years, when people are determined to find out a lot more and experience the element of being there," he said. "Most people on the ship will not have been to Gallipoli before, and this is their opportunity." journey of respect for those onboard.
Passenger Geoff Nuske, who is from Adelaide, wanted to see where his great-grandfather fought. "My great-grandfather fought in Gallipoli, didn't die there but when Australian troops retreated, they went to France and fought the Germans - there he got a dose of mustard gas and had to come back to Australia [where] he died six months later," he said. "He fought there and made it back home, just." It is his first visit to the scene of the battle. "It's the historic 100 years and I just wanted to see where my forefathers had been and fought," Mr Nuske said. Wangaratta's Wendy Morgan booked to go on the trip when it was first advertised in 2010. "My grandfather fought in Gallipoli and in Flanders and so I wanted, out of respect for him, to go and see what he had to go through so that I can tell other members of my family, particularly grandchildren, about their great-grandfather," she said. "He didn't talk too much about it although, as a little girl, I asked him why he walked so funny and he said because he'd spent so many days and weeks in water above his knees and that made his legs difficult to use any more." Ms Morgan found some interesting background on her grandfather which he never revealed. "When I looked up the archives to find out about him, I didn't know that my grandfather could drive," she said. "As far as I knew, he had never driven in his life, he never had a car and my aunty always drove him everywhere and when I looked up his history, he was a private first and then he was promoted to be a driver, and I just sat there and thought that's extraordinary. "And all I could assume was that the horrors of war must have been so terrible for this poor man - what he saw when he was driving, that when he came back to civilisation, he more or less [said] I'm not going to do that again because it just brought back bad memories. "He never mentioned to any of us that he could drive. That was locked away I suspect, very deep." Ms Morgan said she was looking forward to the dawn service at Gallipoli. "There won't be a dry eye in the house, we'll all be very emotional but what a great experience and I'm taking Nana," she said. "I thought you can come with me Nan and see what Pa went through."
Ahoy, I personally feel these passengers will have a great trip and very emotional voyage.
So…………Anyone made any Plans for Anzac Day?
I am going to a dawn service, but probably will have a very quiet day, a day to reflection.
