Hell of a Time
An Australian Soldier's Diary of the Great War
$29.74
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2019
Summary
One of the last undiscovered personal accounts of an Australian soldier fighting to survive WWI.
Philip Owen Ayton was working on the Sydney tramways when the call to join the fight against Germany came. Keen for action, he found himself in the First Field Company Engineers in the First Division of the Australian Imperial Forces.
Shipped to Egypt, Ayton soon after took part in the Gallipoli landing. ‘I would not have missed this for anything,’ he wrote to a friend. Badly injur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925773422 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925773426 |
| Author: | Philip Owen Ayton, Ross McMullin |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 438g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 597mm x 156mm |
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Critics Review
‘There is no shortage of diaries and memoirs recording the day-to-day experience of soldiers in World War I…[But] Ayton’s diary is an outstanding example, distinguished both by the vividness of its descriptive writing and by its artless candour…With the story of Gallipoli increasingly veiled in patriotic mythology, it is all the more valuable to be able to see the controversial campaign afresh through the eyes of an Australian soldier who was there.’ * Australian *
About The Author
Philip Owen Ayton
Philip Owen Ayton was born near Melbourne in 1889. At the outbreak of the Great War, he enlisted in Sydney. He was twenty-five. After the war he married his sweetheart, Nellie Clarke, and they had two sons and two daughters. Ayton died in Melbourne in 1946, aged fifty-seven.
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