This book reveals the story of the men who would become 'one of the finest battalions' which served in the war. The West Australian 11th Infantry Battalion, AIF, curing the gruelling Gallipoli Campaign of 1915.

Introduction : never saw such a terrible time -- 1. Fittest, stongest, most ardent -- 2. The great convoy -- 3. Land of the dead : Egypt -- 4. All very colourful : Lemnos -- 5. Lord, what a day : the landing -- 6. To command such men : the Gaba Tepe Raid -- 7. A trifle busy : May -- 8. How many of us will see home again? -- 9. Very monotonous, being shelled all the time : June -- 10. Making targets of ourselves : silt spur -- 11. The few that are left are like brothers : July -- 12. I've lost some more mates, mother : the assault on turkish despair (Leane's Trench) -- 13. It is the excitement that takes it out of you : counter-attack at Leane's Trench -- 15. Terrible to think it was all for nothing : September-November -- 16. Many a strong man's eyes grew moist : Mudros-Egypt -- 17. A man can never escape is fate -- Afterword : when his mates return and he is not there -- Notes -- Abbreviations and glossary -- Units of measure -- Bibliography -- Index.