Great War Stories 2 - The Harper Brothers

Everybody in the regiment was frightfully cut up about him, and his own gun section simply broke down and cried like children as they loved him — every one of them.

– Robin Harper, in a letter to family discussing Gordon Harper's death

We went to communion. Some of the Māoris were there, too, and said their prayers aloud in Māori, while a little way off some pious Indians — Mohammedans — were flattening themselves out towards the sun and invoking the same Allah as the Turks. Altogether, it was a strange setting for mass.

– Gordon Harper, on attending mass in Gallipoli during World War l