Picture
from Getty Hulton Archive |
My
grandfather, Charles Broughton, joined the RAMC in 1914 at the
age of 36. After sailing from Liverpool to Mudros in 1915 on
the HMHS Britannic, he served at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli. This
was one of the fiercest and bloodiest campaigns of the first
world war, with hundreds of Australian, New Zealand and British
troops losing their lives under Turkish fire as they tried to
land on the beaches. Charles Broughton survived to serve in
the Middle East and in India before coming home in 1918. |
