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Myth maker: Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the Englishman who sparked Australia's Gallipoli legend
It is one of the history's great ironies that an English war correspondent sparked Australia's Gallipoli legend.
An accident of fate placed Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett on the battleship 'London' watching the Australians and New Zealanders storm the cliffs above Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915. His stirring account of that day - described by the Australian war historian C.E.W. Bean as 'probably the finest of its kind ever penned by a war correspondent' - electrified the world, forever writing the Anzacs into Australia's national identity.
Ashmead-Bartlett was no fawning journalist. Disillusioned with British military bungles at Gallipoli he tried to smuggle a secret letter to the Prime minister exposing the looming disaster. He was thrown off the Gallipoli peninsula - but not before he had taken the only cinema footage of that historic failed expedition.
'Myth Maker' is the story of the cultured son of a British MP who changed the course of the Gallipoli campaign and ultimately the way we see ourselves as Australians.
An accident of fate placed Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett on the battleship 'London' watching the Australians and New Zealanders storm the cliffs above Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915. His stirring account of that day - described by the Australian war historian C.E.W. Bean as 'probably the finest of its kind ever penned by a war correspondent' - electrified the world, forever writing the Anzacs into Australia's national identity.
Ashmead-Bartlett was no fawning journalist. Disillusioned with British military bungles at Gallipoli he tried to smuggle a secret letter to the Prime minister exposing the looming disaster. He was thrown off the Gallipoli peninsula - but not before he had taken the only cinema footage of that historic failed expedition.
'Myth Maker' is the story of the cultured son of a British MP who changed the course of the Gallipoli campaign and ultimately the way we see ourselves as Australians.
285 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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