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Arthur Beecroft: Gallipoli: a Soldiers Memoir [2015] hardback Condition:New Alexander the Great searches throughAt the start of the First World War, Arthur Beecroft was a recently qualified barrister in his twenties. Determined to enlist despite a medical condition, he volunteered for military service, first as a regular soldier, then as a despatch rider. Offered a commission in the Royal Engineers, in 1915 he saw action at Gallipoli. Now a byword for catastrophic military disaster, the Gallipoli Campaign was the ill conceived Allied invasion of the