ANZAC DAY - WAR MEMORIAL

[funwitha7d]

The dawn parade was held today and an estimated 7000 people turned up to pay their respects from 5.15am to about 6.45am.

 

[BananaRepublic]

I was listening to a piece on the radio, recorded interviews from times past, anyway there was a Irish guy who fought that campaign, he spoke of 1000 Irish men in his battalion, presumably an Irish unit in the British army, that went out and only 43 came back shocking really.

 

[funwitha7d]

underestimating your enemy, poor planning, landing craft sent to wrong inaccessible beach, climbing uphill under machine gun fire like sitting ducks, running out of ammunition and supplies, its just one example after another of how not to do things, but still they tried and eventually prevailed but the losses on both sides were horrible