Death
He was killed in action with the 7th Battalion, whilst taking part in the landings at Gallipoli, Turkey on 25 April 1915. He was shot before his boat could reach the beach.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.”
—Ambrose (c. 333–397)
“During these fits of absolute unconsciousness I drank, God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink rather than the drink to the insanity. I had indeed, nearly abandoned all hope of a permanent cure when I found one in the death of my wife.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)