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Great War Stories 2 - Ormond Burton

Television (Full Length Episode) – 2015

For 12 hours on end an orderly would be alone with 60 desperately wounded men.
– Ormond Burton, on a hospital boat off Gallipoli
Victory had not brough a new world, and we saw in a flash of illumination that it never could. War is just waste and destruction.
– Ormond Burton
You believe that by jailing me that you can prison my ideas. I believe you have only helped to let them lose on the world.
– Burton writing to a judge, while jailed for pacifism
A certain German person fired a rifle at me and made a nice little hole in my left arm.
– Ormond Burton writing hime to his sister Marjorie