William Meldrum talks about a no-man's-land strategy that in his view was an important reason for the success of the 'retirement'. Sgt Walter Cobb describes the departure from Gallipoli and the 'Heath Robinson- style' contraptions that kept their rifles firing so the Turks didn't know the evacuation was going on. Doug Dibley talks about the effectiveness of night-time evacuation. and an unidentified man recalls the lack of water and rations and then eating Christmas dinner in 1915 on a battleship, after the evacuation.
Recent stories from New Zealand in World War I
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