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In about 20 hours Asutralians will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ANZACorps landing at Gallipoli.

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Timbo in Oz

A dawn service - at what is now called Anzac Cove on the western side of the Gallipoli Peninsular. It's at around midday Australian time.
Anzac Day is Australia's other national day, and is probably more significant than Australia Day.
I will be going to the National Service a little before that here in Canberra at the Australian War Memorial.
I will be carrying my Dad's medals for WWII - on my right side chest.
I had them restored, re-ribbon-ed and re-mounted a couple of years back.
They are all standard service medals and campaign stars.
From left to right 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with Rozette, Pacific Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45 with MID, and the Australian Service Medal 1939-45. Each had dad's name etc on it's rim or back for the stars.
The Rozette, IIRC. Might indicate that he was Mentioned in Dispatches twice in North Africa. He was the Medical Sgt of 3 Squadron RAAF a fighter / fighter-bomber Squadron in Egypt, Libya, Syria (Lebanon & Syria), and Cyrenaica from 1940 until 1942.At least one of the MID's was for getting aircrew out of crashed burning aircraft.
OR he was awarded the Rozette for combat service, under fire, in Nth Africa. Possibly during the various breakthrough battles - aka Benghazi Handicaps - when the front-line could be anywhere.

Warmest

Tim Bailey

Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger

The Benghazi Handicap. (Open in New Window)

Edits: 04/24/15 04/24/15

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RE: In about 20 hours Asutralians will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ANZACorps landing at Gallipoli. - double28 14:22:26 04/24/15 (2)
That was one truly bloody mess.

Will
- Yes, you are right! - Timbo in Oz 15:05:30 04/24/15 (1)
  It was a bad idea on so many levels it is shocking.
  While the Dardanelles were the 'obvious' last flank around the Central Powers, a naval forcing of the Narrows was most unlikely to succeed against coastal forts (unmoving) armed with analogue computing and tide charts, and AP-HE shells similar is size to the older and mostly obsolescent ships ( which were constantly moving).
  Once that failed the hope and plans for a land campaign were even more vain, based as they were on open-warfare tactics and strategy. Siege warfare was almost inevitable due to the new weapons (QF artillery, and box-magazine rifles), large armies, and the dearth of control and communication capacity. Defence far stronger.
  The landings at what became 'Anzac Cove' began to go irretrievably wrong before it got much past light of day.
  Anzac Day is however not simply about that, but about courage and commitment in two terrible world wars. In WWI Australia's pop'n was between 4-5M and we put over 400,000 in to uniform, 330,000 went overseas. 115,000 wounded, plus > 62,000 dead. Some say 68,000. Leaving aside the 'flu in 1919.
  In WWII we had a pop'n of about 7m, and put 1m into uniform and the merchant marine. 42,000 dead.
  I don't think the USA got anywhere near those proportions in either world war.
  
  Warmest
  
  Tim Bailey
  
  Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
  
  Edits: 04/24/15
  - Some nice pix - LWR 18:27:58 04/24/15 (0)
    of the event
    - http://www.heraldsun.com.au/anzac-centenary/anzac-day-2015-1 (Open in New Window)

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