Private Leonard Hart

2nd Battalion, Otago Regiment

A veteran of Gallipoli, Hart was involved in the attack on Bellevue Spur on 12 October.
He was lucky to survive, and later smuggled his letters past army censors, giving a bitter and honest account of what happened to him and his unit.

Credits
Leonard Hart. PAColl-5580-02. Nicholas Boyack Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.
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