Thanks Kiwis for that info.
I think I must be feeling unusually sensitive because I have been tweaked by Max's original "the Pommy bastards who slaughtered so many of our finest" remark for a day or two now. (Possibly because it came on the back of a little too much ANZAC ribbing for a Pom living in Sydney??? I'll get over it...
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I don't in any way want to belittle the ANZAC troops, or any other troops - or to say that the British strategists should be excused some dumb errors - but I think it's fair to point out that contrary to the impression the film may give, British troops died at Gallipoli too. A far lower percentage of our total population, to be sure, but then again Brits were engaged on other fronts at the same time. And I never knew the Newfoundlanders were there too!
Statistics vary, but these are representative of what I could find:
http://www.turkishpeople.com/tours/henk/anzac/22.html
