ANZAC Legend Begins - And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda

On 25 April 1915, the Anzacs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) landed at a difficult and desolate spot on the Gallipoli peninsula and the Turks appeared to be ready for them, a defeat was inevitable, The Gallipoli campaign was a debacle, Military censorship prevented the true story being told but a young Australian journalist, Keith Murdoch (father of Australian newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch) smuggled the story about the scale of the Dardanelles disaster back to the Australian Prime Minister who sent it on to the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who was no friend of the British military establishment. It led directly to the dismissal of the British commander, Sir Ian Hamilton who never again was to hold a senior military position.
The British Government ordered an evacuation. By day, the ANZACs kept up their attacks with more ANZACs observed to be landing - by night the force was withdrawn, broken only by sporadic rifle and gunfire. On 20 December 1915, the Anzac retreat was complete, unnoticed by the Turks who continued to bombard the Anzacs' empty trenches. On 9 January 1916, the Turks carried out their last offensive on Gallipoli, revealing only that the entire force had withdrawn without casualty. The evacuation was the Allies most successful operation in Gallipoli.
A British Royal Commission into Gallipoli concluded that from the outset the risk of failure outweighed Its chances of success. The British had contributed 468,000 in the battle for Gallipoli with 33,512 killed. 7,636 missing and 78,000 wounded.
The ANZACs lost 8,000 men in Gallipoli and a further 18,000 were wounded. The ANZACs went on to serve with distinction in Palestine and on the western front in France.
Australia had a population of five million - 330,000 served in the war, 59,000 were killed.
New Zealand with a population of one million lost 18,000 men out of 110,000 and had 55000 wounded.

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[funforkie]

any true blooded australian would have a lump in their throat when they here this song.....we remember and admire those galant men who gave their all for australia and respect the brave ones who we were lucky enough tocome back home from hell...while ever there is a true australian alive the ANZAC legend will never die and i'm very proud to say i am AUSTRALIAN

[carmelanneor]

Proud to be an Aussie and so very grateful and very proud of our Soldiers.

[05356158259]

@PresidentZod ahahhah yeah yeahonly in your dream:D what kind of toliet is that has 2.second standing largest army in Nato, and 15, biggest economy in the world, when ı look at what you wrote ı see a terrible and irreversible pain your asses:D keep dreaming boyy, but ı dont think that you are really australian, because we memorize our deaths together with all respect

[PresidentZod]

@05356158259 What happened after Gallipoli is the Western Allies occupied your homeland and divided up the Ottoman Empire like a father carving up the Christmas Turkey. "Modern" (LOL) Turkey is just the shittiest leftover bits we couldn't sell because nobody wanted them.

Today Turkey is a backward Third World toilet filled with sand niggers begging on their knees to be admitted to the European Union, but we all know that will NEVER happen.

"You keep a knockin' but you can't come in..." Ha ha ha.

[05356158259]

@PresidentZod hey idiot whereis istanbl now? who has it? you lost gallipoli and yes allied invaded istanbul but what happened afftr? independce war we took it back and you could not do anything

[simojohnston34]

@molodoychelovek As a turk - you guys invaded the slav region for more land and joined the side of the Germans in order to re-emerge the Ottomon empire as a strong hold in europe - not the sick man of europe. And to obviously claim back the land you ad lost in the previous Balkan wars...You had declared war against the allies - and the ANZACS in doing so. But gallantly the Turks defended their land against us - the invaders. True spirit from both sides which is why the legacy lives on!

[PresidentZod]

@Timurchin1 "Western propaganda bullshit"? No. Authentic hadiths from your religion.

"Aisha reported Mohammed married her when she was 6 and she was taken to his house as a bride when she was 9, and her dolls were with her" -Sahih Muslim 8-331

"Narrated Aisha: The Prophet married me when I was 6 and consumated [DAKHALA] the marriage when I was 9" -Sahih Bukhari 7-62-65

DAKHALA: "to pierce, penetrate, consummate a marriage" -Hans-Wehr Arabic-English Dictionary

Your Profit fucked little kids.

[Timurchin1]

@PresidentZod all what you talking is western propaganda bullshit..your a brainwashed pice of shit .. i dont care about religion i care about anzacs pussys ;)

[Timurchin1]

@PresidentZod why you bring religion into our fight? wtf has religion to with you and me? thats why i dont reply to you .. to talk about religion makes no sense so bye bye

[PresidentZod]

@Timurchin1 No reply in a week to my last post?

I guess you're simply too ashamed of the undeniable fact your "holy" Profit (piss be upon him) was fucking little girls who were only 9 years old and still playing with dolls when the lecherous, filthy old goat was in his 60s - as revealed in several authenticated hadiths.

Holy man my infidel arse, you stinking Kümmel Türke refugee sand nigger.

Ha ha ha ha ha.