Wednesday 11 April 2007

Tye's Useless Information

Did you know…. *Most of the troops that were used against the Anzacs in the first days at Gallipoli, were Arabs.
*On the first day only one Australian 18 pounder artillery piece was landed.
*“Old Anzac”, the area of land held during the whole campaign is about 400 acres in size.
*At Kum Kale, the French had no steel pickets to string barbed wire. They used Turkish bodies instead.
*The minesweepers that were sent to clear the minefields in the Dardanelles were fishing trawlers, with civilian crews, who were averse to taking orders from the Royal Navy.

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