b'74389MAJOR ARTHUR JAMIESON MEIKLE (1869-1954). A series of letters dating from August 1914, before his departure from Port Lincoln, and continuing to December 1915, that letter headed Walden Grove - Anzac - Turkey (Then a medical post and now a cemetery at Gallipoli). The letters, to a friend, Mrs John Myers of Coulta, South Australia, are highly articulate and insightful. In his letter for 30th May 1915, headed Gallipoli Peninsula he writes Youd see from the papers that we landed here on the 25th April - exactly 5 weeks today & that our reception was not a too welcome one. It is quite impossible for me to describe all that has happened those five weeks - one thing however I can say is this, that none of us, even in our wildest dreams, ever anticipated that warfare as it is carried out at present is so horribly terrible. War means just one thing - HELL. The letters are written on various types of paper and 4 are accompanied by the original envelopes. A total of 25 sides of writing.Some of Meikles letters are held in the State Library of South Australia collection.$500750 394'