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- Title
GEORGE HORE’S GALLIPOLI EXPERIENCE: A LIGHT HORSEMAN’S RECORD OF THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN – THE ‘ANZAC PANORAMA’ AND ITS BACKGROUND.
- Authors
Braga, Stuart
- Abstract
Many of those who served in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign in 1915 sought to record their experiences, usually in letters and diaries, occasionally in graphic form, though few had the skills or materials to do this. Leslie Fraser Standish Hore, known as George, one of the few surviving officers of the 8th Light Horse Regiment, whose Gallipoli experience culminated in the disaster of the attack at The Nek on 7 August, left a memorable record of that experience in three forms: firstly, in a series of observant coloured sketches; secondly in a letter to his wife which gave an account of the harrowing event; and thirdly and perhaps most significantly, he produced what he called the ‘Anzac Panorama’. Informed by his pictures and by six smaller panoramas he had sketched during the campaign, it was completed from memory after the Gallipoli campaign was over. Hore then had it printed in Cairo, probably early in 1916. The panorama gives an interesting representation of Australian positions on 7 August, the day of the assault on Turkish positions at The Nek by the 8th and 10th Australian Light Horse Regiments. This article outlines Hore’s background, and goes on to discuss all three aspects of his Gallipoli experience: his sketches, his account of the attack, in which he was wounded, and finally the ‘Anzac Panorama’, which brought together all that had gone before. While it is but one part of a considerable corpus of sketching and painting, he clearly intended it to be the most significant part. He was well fitted to achieve this.
- Subjects
HORE, Leslie Fraser Standish; GALLIPOLI Campaign, 1915; PANORAMAS; SPECIAL operations (Military science); GREAT Britain. Army. Australian &; New Zealand Army Corps
- Publication
Globe (0311-3930), 2016, Issue 80, p13
- ISSN
0311-3930
- Publication type
Article