>Gallipoli - English officers sent the plucky anzacs to their certain death, despite being told it was all pointless
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>Well it was a complete debacle. It was only after Keith Murdoch (father of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch) smuggled the story out past the censors that the British commander, Sir Ian Hamilton, was relieved of his position. The subsequent Royal Commission determined that it should have been immediately evident that failure was the most likely outcome.

John

I hope you don't think I was being disparaging - far from it. I was merely pointing out how Gibson lays it on with a trowel when he portrays the English cruelty/stupidity, as if he's got a real down on us.

Of course I know that Gallipoli was a disaster (and one of Churchill's early blunders) and bloody. I also imagine that the young, unknown Gibson didn't have much say in the plot either. However, I have seen a few docu's on the campaign and I seem to recall that the British weren't as bad as they were portrayed in the film and that the film only showed the anzac side of things. I believe the British forces themselves suffered great privation. I may be recalling wrong but haven't the time to go researching.

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>FWIW, New Zealand had 110,000 men under arms in that war from a population of 1 million, suffering 18,000 dead and 55,000 wounded - a 62% casualty rate.

Those are tragic stats! You're not saying that they were all caused in G though are you?

Terry