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Rh A song by Corporal James Burns, who fought in the ranks of the Anzacs, voices the heart of Australia in that dark hour when she heard the far-off réveillé:

He answered the call and gave his life at Gallipoli for the ideals of life and conduct that are the equal inheritance of all the English-speaking nations. It was the same impulse that brought Geoffrey Wall over to England to enlist. Born at Liscard, in Cheshire, he went with his family to Melbourne when he was twelve years old. The war came while he was still at school there, a graduate of Queen's College in Melbourne University, and in 1915 he offered himself for the Australian Army,