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Jonah Lomas 2:00 Fri Apr 24
ANZAC Day, 100 year anniversary of the Gallipoli landings

As you're probably unaware, Saturday the 25th marks 100 years since the Allied forces landed at ANZAC Cove in the Dardanelles during WW1, a date that has become our (and Australia's) national day of remembrance, and obviously was a particularly significant day in the whole scheme of the war for the Allied Forces.

The missus and I were talking about it the other day, and she really knew nothing about it at all.

It turns out that history at her school didn't really cover any of the World Wars, and I wondered how that was possible.

Surely they are the most important military conflicts in history?

Anyway

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

Northern Sold 2:14 Fri Apr 24
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I hope you lot on YOUR special day also remember the OTHER allied troops as well Jonah that landed and died in the Dardanelles ....

Casulaties

British - 73,485
Australia - 28,150
France - 27,000
NZ - 7,991
India - 4779
Newfoundland - 142
Ottoman Empire - 251,309

Mr. Burns 2:17 Fri Apr 24
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Well said Sold0

Jonah Lomas 2:24 Fri Apr 24
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Of course we do NS, just as much as our casualties are remembered over there.

normannomates 3:29 Fri Apr 24
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Winston churchills unfinest hour.
Reckon it weighed heavy on him for the rest of his life.
Respect to all the ANZACS...did themselves and their nations proud.

fraser 4:38 Fri Apr 24
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It's the nature of it here NS 2000 people could die in a disaster and the headline here would be "3 Aussies missing"

Sven Roeder 5:24 Fri Apr 24
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That's the same the world over I think

Sven Roeder 5:32 Fri Apr 24
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If anyone wants to read about the British at Gallipoli google ' 6 Victoria crosses before breakfast'. I understand the 6 Victoria Crosses have been brought together to go on display for the first time.

This Anzac centenary has become an industry in itself in Australia. Was reading that the government is spending $325m on it plus another $300m raised by donations. $625m is about £300m.

Jonah Lomas 5:38 Fri Apr 24
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Yeah it wasn't Churchill's (and the rest of the allied command) best work, that's for sure.

The issue fraser, is not so much that we only care about our own casualties down under, but Gallipoli was the first real military encounter that NZ as a country, and I imagine Australia too, had entered into.

Britain was well used to war, and conflict, and sending her men to their deaths, in fact that's been going on there since as far back as records go, but down here, it was completely different.

It was a massive thing for a fledgling country like NZ to suffer such massive casualties as we did in WW1, not just at Gallipoli, but in general.

It became a significant milestone in NZ's history and the bravery and courage the ANZACS showed helped us find our identity.

They were fighting on the other side of the world in the name of the British Empire.....

fraser 6:15 Fri Apr 24
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Jonah - Wasn't really referring to ANZAC day in itself more to do with how the news is so insular here.

Not sure how it is NZ, but sometimes a traffic accident takes priority on the news to bigger things going on abroad unless there are Aussies involved.

Sorry Sven it isn't the same every where cause I also watch the UK news.

Jonah Lomas 6:37 Fri Apr 24
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Traffic accident?

We have stories about cats and shit on our news. Fuck all the serious stuff.

RAF Hammer 7:08 Fri Apr 24
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-32429135

The battlefield and the war graves.

For our tomorrow they gave their today.

cholo 8:28 Fri Apr 24
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Why would the British be unaware? Considering her forces bore the brunt of the allied casualties.

To all those involved from all countries you will not be forgotten.

bruuuno 9:15 Fri Apr 24
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OP - it's nothing to do with the news or te education it's just women mate. We study the wars at school over here but women prefer to forget stuff like that to make room for more important stuff like what shows Kim kardashian is wearing

bruuuno 9:15 Fri Apr 24
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Shoes

Eddie B 9:23 Fri Apr 24
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Gallipoli is a great film, but I just wish it wasn't to anti-English.

Westham67 9:39 Fri Apr 24
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Strategy wise it could have been a Masterstroke had it have worked out . Unfortunately many pf the Generals and probably The first Lord of the Admiralty had no idea about what was then "Modern" warfare of course

People who sneer at 1930s appeasers do not realize what people had gone through less than 20 years before. A whole Generation wiped out/ Slaughtered in places like Gallipoli the Somme , Verdun and numerous other places. A good read to gauge peoples mood and the devestation of the first world War is about the day the Unknown warrior was buried at Westminster Abbey

Eddie B 9:44 Fri Apr 24
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67, what's the name of the book?

Westham67 9:51 Fri Apr 24
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its a report of the days events , I'll have a look for it read it years ago

Jonah Lomas 9:52 Fri Apr 24
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bruuuno 9:15 Fri Apr 24

I did wonder that, but she said all the way up to GCSE level, they only studied earlier English history.

That's ridiculous surely?

Eddie B 9:52 Fri Apr 24
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67, thanks.

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