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A mounted rifleman's war against the Turkish ArmySeveral accounts of the famous Australian mounted infantry, the Lighthorsemen, are well known and highly regarded. Far fewer accounts exist concerning their counterparts from New Zealand, the Mounted Riflemen, who served during the same campaigns during the First World War. This account by Clutha Mackenzie, a trooper in the Wellington Mounted Rifles, notably follows 'Mac', its principal characte...

A mounted rifleman's war against the Turkish ArmySeveral accounts of the famous Australian mounted infantry, the Lighthorsemen, are well known and highly regarded. Far fewer accounts exist concerning their counterparts from New Zealand, the Mounted Riflemen, who served during the same campaigns during the First World War. This account by Clutha Mackenzie, a trooper in the Wellington Mounted Rifles, notably follows 'Mac', its principal characte...

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Excerpt from The Tale of a TrooperA winter storm raged across the ridges and tore in Violent gusts down the gullies, carryirlg great squalls of ¿eecy snow. The wind swept the ¿akes horizontally through the gap where the station track ran an irregular course through the bush, and, though but a short hour had passed since the ominous mass of black cloud had swept over the early morning sky, the ground was already thickly powdered.A ramshackle hu...

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Excerpt from The Tale of a Trooper A winter storm raged across the ridges and tore in violent gusts down the gullies, carrying great squalls of fleecy snow. The wind swept the flakes horizontally through the gap where the station track ran an irregular course through the bush, and, though but a short hour had passed since the ominous mass of black cloud had swept over the early morning sky, the ground was already thickly powdered. A ramshack...

THE TALE OF A TROOPER (1921) is a first-hand account in novel form of World War I by soldier, author, and distinguished New Zealand activist for the blind, Clutha N. Mackenzie. Blinded in action in 1915, while serving with the Wellington Mounted Rifles in Egypt and Gallipoli, Mackenzie presents a profound chronicle of the global warfare as seen from the eyes of an ordinary soldier -- by an author who will never see again.

THE TALE OF A TROOPER (1921) is a first-hand account in novel form of World War I by soldier, author, and distinguished New Zealand activist for the blind, Clutha N. Mackenzie. Blinded in action in 1915, while serving with the Wellington Mounted Rifles in Egypt and Gallipoli, Mackenzie presents a profound chronicle of the global warfare as seen from the eyes of an ordinary soldier -- by an author who will never see again.