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WALTER ARMIGER BOWRING
The War Artist Who Never Left New Zealand
This Auckland artist captured the war as seen from the homefront.
Turkish amity, regard and reconciliation
This Turkish memorial statue at Anzac Cove
depicts a Turkish soldier carrying an ANZAC
casualty back to his army. It is said that he raised a white flag (some say
it was underwear) to signal a cease fire. During these truces to care for
dead and wounded, the soldiers would share tobacco or food, and even
converse. Sometimes at night both sides would sing together across
the trenches. Anzac soldiers also aided the Turks with their wounded (as
seen in photo above) and reunited the dead with their Turkish comrades.
War historian Charles Bean noted that a ‘friendliness’ trend began when
the ANZACs were attacked on May 19 by a series of suicide charges.
The Turks lost 3000 men. After that, ANZAC feeling began to move from
savagery towards compassion and they saved the Turkish wounded
whenever they could, and yet would then jump back into the trenches
and fire away. It was referred to as ‘a gentleman’s war’, the honour of
fulfilling one’s duty and recognizing the same valour in the enemy.
Captain Aubrey Herbert reported that during the May 24 truce, a Turk
said to him as they stood among the rotting bodies: “At this spectacle
even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most savage weep.”
Visitors often comment on the consideration and kindness of the Turkish
people. One blogger wrote that the guide on his tour bus played ‘And
the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ over the speakers, pleading “please
don’t cry.” ... Don’t cry? Too late... The song is an account of a young
Australian soldier, maimed during the devastation at Gallipoli, who notes
the death of other veterans over time, and how the young of that era had
become unsympathetic to it all.
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