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Originally posted by Spartak
Let's not forget the Kiwis!
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And the Indians, Turkish, French, British...
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In WWI they landed in Gallipoli and suffered heavy casualties, mainly because of British mistakes (bombing the wrong beach etc).
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Just to put this into perspective:
# Australia: 18.500 wounded and missing - 7,594 killed.
# New Zealand : 5,150 wounded and missing - 2,431 killed.
# British Empire (excl. Anzac) : 198,000 wounded and missing - 22,000 killed.
# France : 23,000 wounded and missing - 27,000 killed.
# Ottoman Empire (Turkey) : 109,042 wounded and missing - 57,084 killed.
# Furthermore 1.700 Indians died in Gallipoli, plus an unknown number of Germans, Newfoundlanders and Senegalese.
Mr Mephisto