"Beyond The Dawn Landing: The 11th Battalion at Gallipoli" Topic
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| Tango01 | 07 Aug 2015 10:48 p.m. PST |
"For generations the Australian public has associated Gallipoli with a beach and a dawn landing. In recent years, books, documentaries and television series have repeated a story that leap-frogs over the campaign's stereotypical events and images: the Landing, the 24 May armistice, Lone Pine, the Nek and the evacuation. Few of those who fought in the campaign landed before dawn on 25 April 1915; those that did so didn't take Lone Pine nor charge the Nek. Men's experiences varied greatly. The main dictator of a man's fate, apart from luck, was his unit. The 11th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, was raised in Western Australia but included many men from the United Kingdom, Victoria and elsewhere. As part of the Third Brigade, they were one of four covering force battalions who fought their way ashore before dawn on 25 April. Only 350 out of a thousand initially answered their names when they re-assembled several days later…"
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