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I have a copy of Garland's diary. I visited Garland's grave in Quinn's Post cemetery in 2001 with well known Turkish guide Capt Ali Efe.

Submitted by: Andrew Morgan

Relationship to casualty: Relative

HAWERA & NORMANBY STAR, VOLUME LXIX, ISSUE LXIX, 1 JUNE 1915, PAGE 4 Personal Items Sapper Garland Oswald Morgan, who was killed action at the Dardenelles on 11th May, was born in Hawera, and was... the son of Veteran Thomas Morgan and Mrs Morgan, of Heatherlea House, Wilson Street [Hawera]. He was educated at Hawera District High School, passed the Civil Service examination and entered the local post office, where he became one of the smartest operators. He was transferred to Wellington, and them acquitted himself well, both in departmental work and in sport. He was a prominent member of the Lyall Bay Surf Bathing Club, and on one occasion was successful in saving life at injury to his own, for he was invalided for two months after the rescue. At the outbreak of war, he was among the first to enlist, and he and another local lad Reydon Bates, were engaged as signallers on the troopship going to Egypt. On arrival there these two schoolmates stood their training well, but just before leaving for the Dardanelles Signaller Bates was sent to the hospital, invalided for pneumonia. Signaller Morgan was a young man of sterling character, a good student, a capable officer and a most loyal and dutiful son— a soldier and a man, and richly entitled to the garland of honor. Read More