Their fighting equipment reduced to machine guns and rifles, a small
British unit at Gallipoli met the onrushing Turks in the open and drove
them back.]
The Australians had done the thing men in authority had thought it
impossible to do. Lord Kitchener later declared this one of the most
brilliant feats of bravery and soldiering of the war.
There were 20,000 men who landed at Gallipoli. Perhaps 1,000 of them
are alive to-day.