Stan Watson was among the first ashore at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, and survived battle, fear and disease to build the pier at Anzac Cove from which so many men later escaped. He faced what seemed like an impossible mission: to get every man out alive. Watson never claimed to be the last man to leave Gallipoli, but through to the very end he played his part and became a hero.
Dr Joshua Funder is the great grandson of Stanley Watson and has been researching and writing his story for over a decade. He earned his science and law degrees at Melbourne University and the London School of Economics before undertaking a PhD in intellectual property for biotechnology from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and two children and this is his first book.
