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On April 25th, 1915, the first 16,000 of the combined forces of Australia and New Zealand, the ANZAC soldiers landed on the shores of Gallipoli. These young men, of no more than 25 years of age at most, had travelled from their homes thousands of miles away in search of adventure and to aid and help their "Mother Country" of Great Britain. They had come and left everything and everyone they knew behind them to fight another country's war.
But due the carelessness of their British generals, they were landed on the wrong beach 1.5km north of where they were supposed to. Instead of a lightly fortified flat beach that they expected to seize quickly, they faced a steep cliff that was heavily fortified with Turkish machine guns. 5000 of the first wave were slaughtered within minutes and the remaining ANZACs dug themselves into a trench on that beach where they sat and were slowly killed for 8 months, not moving an inch. In the end, the Gallipoli campaign was a failure, and the tens of thousands of young lives were wasted. No other country lost more men for their population than any other of WW1. An entire generation of young men sacrificed in the name of Britain, which they still felt they were part of.
That is why, every year on April 25th, the day of the first landing, Australia and New Zealand mournfully celebrate ANZAC day. A day when 2 whole countries mourn the lives lost back then and remember the futility of war. The Gallipoli campaign would also mark the start of when Australia began to sever their ties to Britain and think of themselves as a unique people, the Australian identity and not as a piece of Britain that broke off and drifted south. Australia is my second home country and very important to me. As an honourary Australian I did this piece in memory of the ANZACs.
I think the anthems of Australia and New Zealand are in order here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcMuf8wE52k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYLoL1pfxeA
But due the carelessness of their British generals, they were landed on the wrong beach 1.5km north of where they were supposed to. Instead of a lightly fortified flat beach that they expected to seize quickly, they faced a steep cliff that was heavily fortified with Turkish machine guns. 5000 of the first wave were slaughtered within minutes and the remaining ANZACs dug themselves into a trench on that beach where they sat and were slowly killed for 8 months, not moving an inch. In the end, the Gallipoli campaign was a failure, and the tens of thousands of young lives were wasted. No other country lost more men for their population than any other of WW1. An entire generation of young men sacrificed in the name of Britain, which they still felt they were part of.
That is why, every year on April 25th, the day of the first landing, Australia and New Zealand mournfully celebrate ANZAC day. A day when 2 whole countries mourn the lives lost back then and remember the futility of war. The Gallipoli campaign would also mark the start of when Australia began to sever their ties to Britain and think of themselves as a unique people, the Australian identity and not as a piece of Britain that broke off and drifted south. Australia is my second home country and very important to me. As an honourary Australian I did this piece in memory of the ANZACs.
I think the anthems of Australia and New Zealand are in order here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcMuf8wE52k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYLoL1pfxeA
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
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the sad thing is many of the lessons learned from ww1 could have been discovered sooner and at a far lower cost if the generals werent so stuck on the napoleonic way of fighting. technology exceeded the tactics and the soldiers paid the price. as horrible as ww1 was, it did bring about many changes. some good some bad.
the submarine was first used in the american civil war "H. L. Hunley" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_submarine
the airplane was in use before ww1 but it was then only used for scouting. another weapon you forgot to include was the machine gun.
the airplane was in use before ww1 but it was then only used for scouting. another weapon you forgot to include was the machine gun.
Do you really think it was carelessness? I've always been under the impression it was a malicious act of the British military to slaughter their colonists, a way to drive home the idea that they were dirt under the King's boots.
But being American, I was always taught that the British very endlessly malicious to their colonists, and thought nothing of wasting 16,000 colonial lives if it meant fewer bullets to fire on Britain-born troops.
But being American, I was always taught that the British very endlessly malicious to their colonists, and thought nothing of wasting 16,000 colonial lives if it meant fewer bullets to fire on Britain-born troops.
Well, this is just echoing the sentiment of the Aussies now. And yes, the British did actually use the Aussies to male sure there was less gunfire on the Brits themselves, I learned that in history class. But you can't call Australia a colony anymore cuz by then they were independent.
No sympathy for the Turks? They actually took more casualties than the Allies did, but you should've mentioned both sides, my great grandfather was soldier in the Turkish Army, he was born in Adana in Turkey so yeah you can see were I'm coming from, around 253,000 Turkish soldiers died arounf 60% of the Turkish Army in Gallipoli, the ANZACS took around 220,000 casualties which was 59% of the invasion force in Gallipoli, the Turks were defending their country from invasion, but yes it was horrible for both sides, and the corrupt Ottoman government put Turkey in this mess in the first place, and the generals on both sides didn't care about their men neither, I salute those brave men on both sides who gave their lives for their countries.
Both sides were bloodied and murdered, but the story is a sadder for the ANZACs, fighting a war that was not theirs, landing on the wrong beach due to the carelessness of the British commanders they volunteered for, and dying thousands of miles from home, in a foreign land, and what was for most the first time they had left their country
It must be remembered, in the defence of the british, that nothing like this had ever been tried before. This was a totally new kind of war. NO ONE had ever fought this kind of war before, excepting the russians and japanese in 1905. You can't blame the generals for failing to predict the effects of weapons that had never really seen proper action against each other in a modern war.
It's still a real moral let down on their part. They swore an oath to protect Czechoslovakia, and let the germans take over. When the soviets bullied romania into sureendering moldova, they did nothing. And when poland was attacked, they declared war, but basically let germany off.
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