Gallipoli

[crystalight]

With just a few hours left to the 25th April ....... the day the Gallipoli landing is commemorated

May we always remember the sacrifices these men made ( on all sides ) and pray they did not die in vain. It is up to us, the living and descendents of these soldiers, to make sure their deaths are remembered, and the reason for their deaths. Some made it home and died years later, but still carried the scars of war.

Well spoken Annie
Can I add my remembrance here to ALL those who died throughout the peninsula and my own personal one for one of my Grandfather's brother's

Frederick Grimes TF/3433, 2nd/4th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)who was killed on 16 August 1915 aged just 17.
Remembered with Honour
Helles Memorial

Crystal 

[crystalight]

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[4kni]

To all who will be taking part in services to rebember Anzac day my thoughts are with you tomorrow ( 25th April ). I doubt I will be up at dawn unless the baby has other ideas but I will have my shotgun breakfast at about 9:30am (GMT) after the children have gone to school


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[Springbok]

Link to UK services tomorrow

http://www.gallipoli-association.org/contentpage.asp?pageid=12


Spring

[wrjones]

I'm sorry,but it was a tragic waste of life.

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.

[scrimnet]

I'm sorry,but it was a tragic waste of life.

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.

Yes it was, as are all wars...

But...we can look back at mistakes that were made at the time and see where they were made....This was an attempt to break the central powers, but amphibious warfare was a new art. Even at Dieppe in 1942 where many Canadians were lost two years prior to D-Day, lessons were learned that led the way to the success of D-Day.

The landings on the Dardanelles and the proposed Naval breakthrough didn't work. If they had done...who knows...??

The entire war was a huge learning curve, and the British army of 1918 bore no resemblance to the tiny professional army that left these shores in 1914. The tactics of 1918 would be recognised by any level of military commander and indeed used by them today

[spof]

Remembering..."Old" Bill from, I believe, one of the New South Wales regiments from Gallipoli and France 1918. I was lucky enough and  privileged to do a Scout Bob-A-Job many years ago which turned into a Saturday job mowing his lawn until he had to move house.

Also remembering

- Gt Uncle Herbert Harold Bezant, 251344 Corporal in the Essex Regiment died in Palestine 12 June 1917. Buried in the Cairo CWGC Cemetery.

- Mum's cousin Walter Sydney Harvison, no 36 12th Australian Light Horse. 4 months at Gallipoli and nearly three years in Palestine onlyto get malaria and die 8 days before the end of the war.

but mostly thinking about the people serving today and hoping they get back home safe and well.

[Scottiedog]

My grandfather and his brother were both at Gallipoli - I think the disentery which caused my gf to be shipped out may be one the reasons I'm here today (my father was yet to be sired!).

I always used to think of Gallipoli and Suvla Bay in particular (where my gf was) as an ANZAC "show". but know now there we far more Brits fighting and dying there and I think that's often forgotten and we shouldn't forget those lions led by donkeys - which I really think was the case in that theatre.

[spof]

My grandfather and his brother were both at Gallipoli - I think the disentery which caused my gf to be shipped out may be one the reasons I'm here today (my father was yet to be sired!).

I always used to think of Gallipoli and Suvla Bay in particular (where my gf was) as an ANZAC "show". but know now there we far more Brits fighting and dying there and I think that's often forgotten and we shouldn't forget those lions led by donkeys - which I really think was the case in that theatre.

Hi scottiedog,

As an Australian I'm probably not allowed to say this but I tend to agree that it has been "hijacked" for want of a better word. You only have to read Liverpool Annie's original post on another thread ro get some idea of how badly the British suffered

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,300883.0.html