...faces. Carruthers gave me a message from Birdwood written in Godley's writing. I read it aloud : — " Both my Divisional Generals and Brigadiers have represented to me that they fear their men are thoroughly demoralised by shrapnel fire to which they have been subjected all day after exhaustion and gallant...

...following message from General Birdwood written in Godley's handwriting : ' Both my Divisional General and Brigadiers have represented to me that they fear...gallant work in morning. Numbers have dribbled back from firing line and cannot be collected in this difficult country. Even New Zealand Brigade which has been...

...midnight on 26 April, the ANZAC commander painted a bleak picture of his troops as "thoroughly demoralised by shrapnel fire to which they have been subjected all day after exhaustion and gallant work in the morning." All the divisional generals and brigadiers apparently had expressed serious reservations...