ANZAC Day:

[Surpmil]

The movie and the bravery notwithstanding, I'd suggest it was the achievements of the ANZAC on the Western Front that should be remembered most of all.

Gallipoli was opposed by too many powerful forces in the U.K. to succeed and I've no doubt was betrayed before it even began. It's not inconceivable in fact that the likely outcome was well known to those in authority and winked at with the operation simply used for mostly political purposes. Recall that the Ottoman Turks had a long and cosy relationship with certain elements in the UK which not even the atrocities of the 1912 Balkan War or WWI seem to have affected, much less subsequent events.

Read up about Ataturk and his colleagues if you need more clues.

[Flying10uk]

Gallipoli was opposed by too many powerful forces in the U.K. to succeed and I've no doubt was betrayed before it even began. It's not inconceivable in fact that the likely outcome was well known to those in authority and winked at with operation simply used for mostly political purposes. Recall that the Ottoman Turks had a long and cosy relationship with certain elements in the UK which not even the atrocities of the 1912 Balkan War or WWi seem to have affected, much less subsequent events.

It could have worked but the reality was that it didn't.

I believe that an uncle of my mother was one of the British soldiers who served at Gallipoli and survived only to be seriously wounded on the Western front a few months before the end of WW1. I don't believe that he ever spoke of Gallipoli and it only came to light when I got hold of his service record. Although it doesn't state Gallipoli by name it does state Mediterranean and the dates given in the record coincide with the Gallipoli campaign.