The text quotes a speech delivered by Australian Prime Minister William Hughes at the Savoy Hotel in London on March 17, 1916, summing up the Australian experience at Gallipoli. The original excerpt reads:

"In the dark hour when night is yielding doggedly to day, these young soldiers of Australia went out to die. As the blast of the whistle sounded, the first wave leaped from the trench, but nearly all fell back dead upon their fellows who were waiting their turn in the trench. None got more than a few yards before being shot down. In the face of this awful sight the second line, undaunted, leaped out. Of these only five or six remained on their feet after they had gone ten or twelve yards. The third wave followed in their turn and met the same fate. The wounded lay exposed to the pitiless machine-gun fire of the Turks, which poured a veritable hail of death into their poor, bleeding bodies."