Posted on 04/24/2015 7:28:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Prince Charles and his son Harry today joined world leaders to mark the centenary of the catastrophic Gallipoli landings which claimed 140,000 lives during World War One.
The royals met descendants of fallen soldiers on the Royal Navy's flagship HMS Bulwark in Turkey's Dardanelles straits, the same crucial waters the Allies hoped to control 100 years ago.
Instead tens of thousands lost their lives on both sides in a nine-month battle between the German-backed Ottoman forces and Allies including Australian, British and New Zealand troops trying to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war.
Today, soldiers from both the Ottoman and Allied sides lie close together in separate cemeteries on the Gallipoli peninsula on the western edge of Turkey in what has long been seen as a powerful symbol of reconciliation between former enemies.
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Gallipoli nearly ruined the career of Winston Churchill.
If I recall correctly, he left the Navy. He started back up from scratch in the Army, and worked his way up.
Prince Charles is not rendering a typical British salute.
Yes it did. A horribly planned invasion. Tragic consequences.
Prince Charles is not rendering a typical British salute.
No problem hopefully he will never need to use it as King.
Yes, he’s a slime.
100 percent correct. I’d add a “like” if we were on Facebook. lol.
LOL
I think his two sons are decent. Especially Harry with his military service and being more down to earth.
Prince Charles was in the military for a long time and was a helicopter pilot. His son William followed in his footsteps. Prince Andrew was also a helicopter pilot and saw action in the Falklands War.
Yes, I’m aware of that. Harry seems to be the best of the lot. I like William but do not like Charles.
and vice verse.
I so agree. I think Harry is the better of the two, but thank goodness William picked a super bride so maybe he will turn out to be a great King someday.
Ottoman/Turkish soldiers with imported German MG 08 machine guns at the Battle of Gallipoli
As we re-embarked, all we were told was that we’d be fighting Germany’s allies, the Turks — and that the Turkish army would turn and run at the sight of one English sergeant waving a Union Jack. So help us, we believed what we were told.The truth was very different:
Smithsonian channel has an excellent two program on this subject.
“Gallipoli nearly ruined the career of Winston Churchill.”
Indeed it did but undeservedly so, what ended up happening was the complete opposite of what Churchill had planned. Churchill was disgusted at the mass slaughter on the Western Front, as he described it: sending brave men against machine guns with no more protection than their shirt fronts. He was also frustrated at the fact that Britain’s key weapon, the Royal Navy, was sitting largely idle while the British Army was bleeding to death on barbed wire in No-Man’s land in France.
What Churchill saw was the imaginative use of the navy to smash the Dardanelles forts and then sweep into Constantinople, if a few old ships were lost along the way so be it, ships were tools to be used as needed. This last bit was anathema to the Royal Navy who treated their ships like gold. So when a mine layer struck lucky on the first morning of the shelling and sunk a number of British ships, the Royal Navy did something it had never done before, it turned tail and ran.
The Royal Navy, the pride of Britain left the poor bloody infantry high and dry to slug it out with the now well-warned Turks who were waiting for them.
It was the navy’s fault, Churchill was made the scapegoat.
However, in saying that in a wider sense Churchill was wrong, the war would only be won on the Western Front, and sideshows would not bring Germany to heel. In fact in almost every single political stance taken by Churchill in his long career he was almost without exception wrong in every single one, except appeasement, he got that right, but even then he nearly blew it.
He is wearing a Navy uniform. The Royal Navy salute is given palm facing down, not forward like Army and Air Force.
Thanks.
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