ANZAC Day and film footage from WWI found

[niner domestic]

Thoughts and prayers of remembrance go to our Australian and New Zealand Military members of past and present.  I'll especially keep you all close in thoughts on April 25th. 

Archivists in Australia have found a rare undiscovered film footage of ANZAC and British troops amassing for Gallipoli during WWI.  http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=E06EF7C1-5316-4C2D-AEFA-3DBD6FD52561&t=c3100&f=06/64&p=Source_AETN_history&fg=&GT1=9246

 

[mover1]

Do not forget the Newfoundland Regiment was there as well. (before they were considered Royal)



Fr0m WIkipedia

Gallipoli
On September 20, 1915 the regiment landed at Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli peninsula, where the British VIII Corps, IX Corps and the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps had been attempting to seize control of the Dardanelles Strait from Turkey since the first landings on April 25. At Gallipoli the 1st Newfoundland Regiment faced snipers, artillery fire and severe cold, as well as the trench warfare hazards of cholera, dysentery, typhus, gangrene and trench foot. Over the next three months thirty soldiers of the regiment were killed or mortally wounded in action and ten died of disease; 150 were treated for frostbite and exposure.

Despite the terrible conditions, the Newfoundlanders stood up well. When the decision was made to evacuate all British Empire forces from the area, the regiment was chosen to be a part of the rear guard, finally withdrawing from Gallipoli with the last of the British Dardanelles Army troops on January 9, 1916.