[JimRed]

One quarter million lost in the Gallipoli campaign.... which could have been successful if the Brits had quickly followed up on their initial successes.

From "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", an Aussie anti-war song:

And how well I remember that terrible day, how our blood stained the sand and the water
And of how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay, we were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.
Johnny Turk he was waiting, he'd primed himself well. He shower'd us with bullets, And he rained us with shell.
And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia.

But the band played Waltzing Matilda, when we stopped to bury our slain. We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs, then we started all over again.

[dfwgator]

From "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", an Aussie anti-war song:

The Pogues did a great version of that.