Gallipoli Barracks at Enogerra – (possibly named because Queenslanders were the first on the beach?
The first men to die as Australians on the 1st January 1901 were Queenslanders in the Boer War, Victor Stanley Jones (Mt Morgan) and David Cumming Mcleod (from Toowong) According to Charles Bean (the official historian) the first man on the beach at Gallipoli was Duncan Chapman a Queenslander from the 9th Battalion followed closely by his orderly Jim Bostock a Brisbane Boy (Jim loved a good party and dined out for years on his reputation, he died in the 1970s) His diary for 1915 is in the 9th Battalion Museum. The Rising Sun insignia was first used by Qld Mounted Infantry in the Boer War Most of the light horsemen in WW1 came from Queensland as apparently as boys from the cattle properties were perfectly suited The Emu feather was thought to have started by the Gympie Troop who wore it to show sympathy for the Shearers Strike (everyone else must have thought it looked great because they soon followed) It was also a Brisbane boy CVB White that was responsible for planning the withdrawal
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