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...Gallipoli its folk-memory the Somme.
His argument (not, I hope, unfairly truncated here) is that Australian memory makes too much of Anzac, and makes too little of the later fighting on the Western Front in Europe; in short, that Gallipoli receives a good deal of limelight that should be shining on the Somme. (It should be stressed that King does not denigrate Gallipoli, nor subtract anything whatever from the men of Anzac.)
King is supported by every fact we have. The Dardanelles campaign was smaller in scale, lasted only for a few months, and ended in defeat. On the Western Front, we had roughly five times as many men as we had at Gallipoli; we suffered five times the casualties; we endured the appalling savagery and terrible conditions for two and a half years; and (with our allies) we achieved one of the most brilliant victories in the history of arms.
Of the Australian soldiers who came home in 1919, the overwhelming majority had fought in the trenches of France and...
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