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How H J Wright ended the War

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30 How Private H J Wright ended the War

 

 

 

 

Is it true there's a War old Wright said to me

said I, "I dunno" lets go and see

So off to investigate both of us went

to try and find out what the word War really meant

 

Over the creeks and up the great big hills

having no sleep and missing our meals

One day in the distance some big Turks we saw

we knew what it was to be playing at War

 

When around a few bombs and some Jack Johnsons [1] fell

Old Wright said I'm off its too much like hell

So away we both scooted with the Turks at our heels

Old Wright gasped I wonder how a bayonet feels

 

At last a Jack Johnston caught Wright on the Bot

and sent him along at a very fast trot

I'm off home he shouted as he whizzed past my head

but he hung in a tree half alive and half dead

 

When I helped him get down he was a bit dazed

his clothes were all torn and his backside was grazed

I soon fixed him up with some Vas and some plaster

But the Turks they were coming up faster and faster

 

At last old Wright said we'll end this War

the quickest way you ever saw

See those big boulders up on that hill

Well we'll crush those Turks like flour in a mill

 

Five hundred thousand were killed this way

the rest surrendered I'm glad to say

So that is the way Wright end the War

the quickest way you ever saw

 

                    Composed by Bert Havis (2)

A Coy 4th Battalion

on Gallipoli Peninsula

July 1915

 

[1]  Jack Johnson (1878-1946) was a famous American boxer whose nickname was ‘The Big Smoke’. Shells that gave off a dense black smoke when they exploded thus were dubbed ‘Jack Johnsons’. Source: Glossary of Slang.

 

[2]  66 Pte Herbert Havis, farm labourer aged 19 years, enlisted 1 Oct 1914 at Sale, Victoria.

 

Harry Wright to Mother, 1915- England

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