EDGAR GAMBIN
A Diggers Diary
Acrylic on Canvas
170 x 110cm
The painting is composed out of rectangular squares which symbolise diary pages depicting events described by the diggers during the Gallipoli landings. The fob watch, which was found inside an army medical Corp private’s pocket captured that unlucky first wave landing, within minutes after 4.30 am of 24, April 1915.
PS…The Verse-
“Yesterday, scarlet shadows
of poppies on oars,
rowing us young souls
to battle rugged shores.
Today, trenches dug out from
pebbles and sandcastles,
met by rusted ribbons
of barbed wired parcels.
Empathy oozes through
weapons while we wait…
For orders to battle our foe
we don’t even hate.”
Is written by the artist not by a digger.
