Daughters of a WW1 ANZAC Veteran Remember Their Father's Gallipoli Campaign
Joan Morgans,90 and Diana Moore, 85 talk about their father who defied the odds to survive 8 months with ANZAC at Gallipoli surviving the whole campaign.
Aged just 19, Lieutenant Geoffrey Leslie, was part of the 3rd Batallion and the second wave of Australian soldiers on the first day to land at Gallipoli, From here he was sent to Europe and lost an eye in Belgium at Ypres. They have secured two of the 7600 places allocated to Australians in a ballot to attend the dawn service at Gallipoli in Turkey on Anzac Day this year.
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