Gallipoli

LEST WE FORGET
They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning.
We will remember them.

This week we have been studying the ANZAC campaign of 1915. Many of the children in the class gave oral presentations of relatives (both men and women) who had participated in war. Kirwin presented to us war medals that his Great, Great Grandfather had won at Gallipoli. His name was Hugh Brickell. He was one of the last soldiers to be evacuated from ANZAC Cove in 1916. After Gallipoli Sgt. Major Brickell went on to serve his country in France and was one of the six “over the top” survivors of an assault by 16th Company in September 1916. He returned to new Zealand at the end of the Great War, married and raised a family. He died on March 17, 1966 (Howick & Pakuranga Times, April 23, 1998).