Gallipoli

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In you the Dogs of War unleashed again an Expeditionary Force by sea, and in the ground in years fourscore and ten lie bones of Empire and Admiralty. How in muddy trench riflemen joining charged the lines on Ottoman ancient land, and loud shellfire through dead night and dawning fell in great battle Anzac’s finest stand! Upon Lone Pine, Dead Man’s Ridge, Chunuk Bair, the battlefield told a colony’s tale till ceasefire hold and armistice declare, and still to come, Fromelles and Passchendaele. The battle was lost, the Great War won, yet your peace is ours to live Lest We Forget! Written: April 2005

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