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the first "hotel de charme" on the Gallipoli peninsula
"French soldiers attending an officers' funeral" reproduced from a period postcard (Başar Eryoner - private collection)
These little crosses, which
I will never forget, seemed to be telling me : “You are leaving but if one day
you return in our distant country, and if you meet our families, our friends,
tell them what you have seen, tell them what we have suffered, tell them that
our last thoughts were with them, and that death was sweat because we fell for
France”.
And I have sworn to all my comrades who have fallen in combat that the
grateful
France would revenge them, would guard them and honour them forever.
Robert Davids' (*) private diary (5th
October - when leaving Gallipoli, most probably for Saloniki) quoted in, and
translated from "Les Dardandelles",
Paris, National Association of Veteran Groups of the Dardanelles, p. 112.
(*) Ex-under secretary of State at the Interior Ministry, who
served in the Army Service Corps of the Second French Division,
