The other key player in this episode of the campaign was Keith Murdoch. Keith, can you take up the story and tell us your role in it.

It took Keith Murdoch only a few days to share the views of Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett. He wrote a letter (.docx 528kB) to the then Australian Prime Minister Andrew Fisher. But passing on that opinion to the people who mattered was not easy due to military censorship.