Of all the gigantic cock-ups of the Twentieth Century, surely the Gallipoli Campaign must rank as one of the worst. There must be many sober articles in the world's media over the next couple of days. Here's a very poignant one from the Guardian. It's also the centenary of the Armenian massacre, of course.
In nine months of bloody slaughter, about 58,000 allied soldiers – including 29,000 British and Irish soldiers and 11,000 Australians and New Zealanders – lost their lives during the ill-starred operation to take the Gallipoli peninsula; a further 87,000 Ottoman Turkish troops died fiercely defending their homeland, and at least 300,000 more on both sides were seriously wounded.
What a waste of life!
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/ap ... -slaughter
Here's another incredibly moving story:
The schoolboy sailors who died at Gallipoli
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31712158
100 years since Gallipoli
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