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27 de jun. de 2016 · The myth of Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli letter. The legendary dispatch failed its first test nearly a century ago in London. Mark Baker 27 June 2016 3117 words. Ambitious agenda: prime minister William Morris (Billy) Hughes and Keith Murdoch photograhed in France on 3 July 1918. Australian War Memorial. Share.
23 de sept. de 2015 · KEITH Murdoch, the Australian journalist, was officially sent to Gallipoli in September, 1915, to investigate delays in the Anzac postal service. When he left, a few days later, he sought to save an army from its commanders. Murdoch would besmirch reputations and beseech prime ministers in his mission.
This twenty-five page letter, written by journalist Keith Murdoch to his friend, Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, helped establish the notion of Gallipoli as both a disaster and a place of national sacrifice. Murdoch’s conversational yet brutally honest letter played a key role in ending the Gallipoli campaign and in the evacuation of British ...
27 de abr. de 2015 · And Keith Murdoch, whose career up to that point had been marked mainly by failure and missing out on jobs, and who was at Gallipoli for only a few days, on his way to London, may not have...
24 de abr. de 2015 · NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Australian journalist Peter FitzSimons, author of Gallipoli, about how Keith Murdoch defied military censors and got the word out about how badly the battle was...
Murdoch's attacks on the British military's conduct of the Gallipoli Campaign brought him to the attention of British politicians and press figures, including Lord Northcliffe who served as a mentor. He also became a confidant of Australian prime minister Billy Hughes , although they fell out by the end of the war.
Australian journalist. Born 12 August 1885 in West Melbourne, Australia. Died 04 October 1952 in Langwarrin, Australia. Keith Murdoch was an Australian journalist and newspaper proprietor. His Gallipoli Letter was highly critical of the Allied conduct of the Dardanelles Campaign.
