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DZ Season 009 Part 02 ANZAC Day Mr Bean. This is about the Attack AFTER the one you saw in the movie "Gallipoli". Yes - there was another one!
In my last programme I told the story of the ANZACs heading to Egypt and then the first day’s landings on Gallipoli. At the end of that programme I told you that by night time the commanders on the ground had some surprising feelings about how the landings had gone. I said that I’d talk about that in the next programme. So here I am. Let me tell you about what our generals thought about the Gallipoli campaign.
Charles Bean, the first embedded journalist, who landed at Gallipoli with the ANZACs on that first day, whose inspiration and leadership led to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, and who wrote the official history of Australia’s experience in World War I wrote about the feelings at the end of that first ANZAC Day:
“... clearly something was in the wind. In a minute or two I heard what it was — some question as to whether we were to hold on or to embark at once ... “
The Allied generals were reporting back to the highest command that their brigades were saying that they hadn’t established secured positions. They wanted the troops withdrawn immediately – that night. Things were really grim on that first night. In reality the position of the Australians and our allies never got any better until their withdrawal in December.
But it would have been a huge call to end this massive undertaking in less than 24 hours. The reputations of some of the top people in England would have faced ruin. But that’s not a good reason to make that sort of decision and there was in fact a good reason why no evacuation took place that night – or could possibly have taken place that night. Evacuation, with the resources that they had was impossible. So the opportunity to bring this doomed operation to an end quickly was either missed or more probably wasn’t even an option. Many lives were going to be lost over the next months without anything to show for it, except that Australia, as a strong, proud and independent nation was emerging.
Tag words: ANZAC; Gallipoli; Charles Bean; Australian War Memorial; Victoria Crosses; George Moor; Hampshire Regiment; General Henry de Lisle; Major Cass; Colonel James McCay; ANZAC Cove; Lone Pine; the Pimple; the Nek; Russell’s Top; Baby 700; Australian 3rd Light Horse Brigade; Lieutenant-Colonel Noel Brazier; 10th Light Horse;
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By Paul FordyceIn my last programme I told the story of the ANZACs heading to Egypt and then the first day’s landings on Gallipoli. At the end of that programme I told you that by night time the commanders on the ground had some surprising feelings about how the landings had gone. I said that I’d talk about that in the next programme. So here I am. Let me tell you about what our generals thought about the Gallipoli campaign.
Charles Bean, the first embedded journalist, who landed at Gallipoli with the ANZACs on that first day, whose inspiration and leadership led to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, and who wrote the official history of Australia’s experience in World War I wrote about the feelings at the end of that first ANZAC Day:
“... clearly something was in the wind. In a minute or two I heard what it was — some question as to whether we were to hold on or to embark at once ... “
The Allied generals were reporting back to the highest command that their brigades were saying that they hadn’t established secured positions. They wanted the troops withdrawn immediately – that night. Things were really grim on that first night. In reality the position of the Australians and our allies never got any better until their withdrawal in December.
But it would have been a huge call to end this massive undertaking in less than 24 hours. The reputations of some of the top people in England would have faced ruin. But that’s not a good reason to make that sort of decision and there was in fact a good reason why no evacuation took place that night – or could possibly have taken place that night. Evacuation, with the resources that they had was impossible. So the opportunity to bring this doomed operation to an end quickly was either missed or more probably wasn’t even an option. Many lives were going to be lost over the next months without anything to show for it, except that Australia, as a strong, proud and independent nation was emerging.
Tag words: ANZAC; Gallipoli; Charles Bean; Australian War Memorial; Victoria Crosses; George Moor; Hampshire Regiment; General Henry de Lisle; Major Cass; Colonel James McCay; ANZAC Cove; Lone Pine; the Pimple; the Nek; Russell’s Top; Baby 700; Australian 3rd Light Horse Brigade; Lieutenant-Colonel Noel Brazier; 10th Light Horse;