The Evacuation of Anzac is universally regarded as a triumph, partly because it was casualty-free. Mention is sometimes made of a couple of wounded, but the implication is that nobody died. That’s what I thought too, until Kim Phillips asked me to write a foreword to her book The Spirits of Gallipoli – A Centenary of Anzacs. There I found that Staff Sergeant Harry Bowser of the 2nd Light Horse had died on 19 December, of wounds received on the beach, and was buried at sea.
Harry was the last Anzac to die at Gallipoli, remembered on the Lone Pine Memorial.
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Remember Them 