A SIGN THAT LIFE WAS CHEAP

THE humour at the front could be macabre. There was a crossroads behind the front, with the British HQ to the left and the French to the right. A man had died where the roads met, killed by a shell that had half-buried his body and left his arm sticking up out of the ground. In his hand someone put a sign that read ‘Division HQ’ with an arrow pointing the way. This was just how cheap life was at Gallipoli.