STEVE SAILAH
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75th Anniversary, Gallipoli, 1990
Steve (blue shirt) amougst press corps on assignment for the ABC covering the 75th anniversary of the 1st Anzac landing at Gallipoli.
"Jack is a slight man who is still given to quick movements. He doesn’t need glasses to read. His words come out rapid-fire, like a machinegun, in a vernacular as dinky-di as gum leaves.”
- The Australian, April 1990
Steve interviewing Jack Ryan on Anzac Cove, 1990.
Jack Ryan, spent a lifetime regretting that he took a belt buckle off a dead Turk, and in 1990 gave it back to the first Turk he met in Istanbul. Also, right, Bill Hall (white shirt), leader of the Gallipoli Visit Group.
94 -year-old Gallipoli ventran, Bill Bevis, who dined with us at an Istanbul night club and then cavorted on stage with a belly dancer. He brought the house down.
When I observed that he’d been a perfect gentleman with the lady, Bill replied with a laugh, “Well, before a couple of thousand people, what else could you be?"
The Veterans
Veterans featured in the ABC documentary Stories From Gallipoli. Read more about their stories here.
Clockwise from top:
Jack Nicholson, 1st Batallion, (far right)
in Paris with several other Anzacs;
Above, Jack (far right) with two mates;
Left, ABC CD cover, Stories from Gallipoli;
Far Left, Ernie Boston, Captain's Runner,
1st HMAS Sydney in 1914.
A visit to Gallipoli
Clockwise from top left: Steve with Turkish guide, Professor Kenan Çelik OAM; trenches at Johnson's Jolly, Quinn's Post memorial; Group at Gallipoli Houses (including Professor Çelik, and author of The Other Anzacs, Peter Rees); Headstone of Roy Facey, one of two Facey brothers killed on Gallipoli whose surviving brother Albert wrote A Fourtunate Life; Shrapnel Valley cemetery.
Murgon, a town in Queensland
WW1 memorial, Lamb St, Murgon, western Queensland (above) 'Lest we forget,' Murgon
Eric Law, Vietnam vet, Aboriginal elder, school teacher (below)
& Steve, in Murgon, Queensland.
