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**"Legion of Lost Souls" by Captain W J Blackledge. “A vivid firsthand story of the tragic and Terrible Campaign at Gallipoli-The Peninsula of Death” From the deeply engraved memory of Digger Craven, Australian Trooper" Appeared in issues of the weekly magazine ''Liberty'' v13 n42 [1936-10-17] onwards.
*:[https://archive.org/details/LibertyV13N4219361017/page/n5 Part 1], part 2 not available online; [https://archive.org/details/Liberty_v13n44_-_1936_-_MacFadden/page/n53 Part 3], [https://archive.org/details/Liberty_v13n45_-_1936_-_MacFadden/page/n49 Part 4], [https://archive.org/details/Liberty_v13n46_-_1936_-_MacFadden/page/n57 Part 5], [https://archive.org/details/Liberty_v13n47_-_1936_-_MacFadden/page/n37 Part 6], [https://archive.org/details/Liberty_v13n48_-_1936_-_MacFadden/page/n47 Part 7], [https://archive.org/details/Liberty_v13n49_McFadden_1936-12-05_Missing_First_Leaf/page/n47 Part 8]
*:Likely to be the text, or an abridged version, of ''Peninsula of Death'', as told to W. J. Blackledge by Digger Craven. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1937, which is accordingly also classified as fiction, although elsewhere classified as bibliography.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0KbnVtLyiRkC&pg=PA56 Page 56, item 164] ''The Dardanelles Campaign, 1915: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography'' by Fred R van Hartesvelt Google Books</ref> , and also see comments on page 4 of [https://www.rslwa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Vol17-No3-Mar-1937.pdf ‘’The Listening Post’’ 15 March 1937 (RSL WA)] …"appears to be a novel whose author delights in much sordid detail" from the Prime Minister’s Department. For a book about Digger Craven at a later time, see [[North West Frontier Campaigns#Fiction|North West Frontier Campaigns - Historical books online - Fiction]] and for more about the author see [[Mesopotamia Campaign#Historical books online|Mesopotamia Campaign - Historical books online - Fiction]].
**[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9789652294579 ''Of Guns and Mules''] by David Lawrence-Young 2010. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. A historical novel set in the Zion Mule Corps.
**[https://archive.org/details/39020025219968-atgripswiththet/page/n6 ''At grips with the Turk : a story of the Dardanelles Campaign in the Great War''] by F S Brereton, first published 1915. Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers.
