Bound for Gallipoli: the oldest known recording of an ordinary soldier at war

In the early days of the first world war, a young Australian soldier visited a 'talking machine shop' in Cairo. The audio letter he recorded and sent back to his family in Sydney would become the oldest known recording of any ordinary soldier during wartime. 'This is rather a novelty to come to Australia this way,' says Henry Miller Lanser in the recording. 'But here I am, can’t see and can’t be seen, or welcomed in the usual way with a hug and a kiss.' Stephanie Boyle, a senior curator at the Australian War Memorial, says the novelty would have cost the 'equivalent of nearly $60'
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