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Great War Stories 3 - Alexander Aitken
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2016
More than once I felt like throwing the violin away down the streambed, but members of the section took turns with me in carrying it up the slope.– Alexander Aitken, in his 1964 memoir Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman
No country can afford to lose such men.– Alexander Aitken's memoir Gallipoli to the Somme, on the senselessness of war
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