WALKER'S RIDGE CEMETERY
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you?” I fled. Bluck was a dairy farmer with a young
family.
Lt Westmacott (AIR) quoted in "Gallipoli-The New Zealand Story",
(Auckland 1998), Christopher Pugsley, p. 37
This cemetery and the ridge it stands on, was named after a British officer,
General H.B. Walker, who commanded the New Zealand Infantry Brigade in the early
days of the campaign.
"Gallipoli Battlefield Guide", Istanbul 2006, Gürsel Göncü & Şahin Aldoğan, p.
145
Last updated : 01/12/06
The word
spread along the line.
Trooper Harold Rush, a young farmhand, realising he
was likely to die in the next few mo-ments, turned to his mate beside him and
said : “Goodbye cobber. God bless you”. Later, when his
grieving parents were told this they arranged for his last words to be
inscribed on his head-stone, which today lies in the cemetery on Walker’s
Ridge.
"The Nek", (Kenthurst 1996), Peter Burness, p. 113
On 6th
August 1914, before sailing from New Zealand, Lieutenant
Westmacott accidently overheard Captain Alfred Bluck
on the phone to his wife :
In the passage I heard him holding a long distance conver-sation over the
phone with his wife. He had said he would be going and after a pause
with a note of surprise in his voice, he asked “You are not crying are