100 year anniversary of the campaign, so a good time to release a film on it. There was an earlier - excellent - film, Gallipoli, starring a young Mel Gibson. Although it was a highly partial film about the campaign, focusing as it does on the - still considerable - ANZAC contribution and how they suffered because of the British 'ruling class' leadership, including it would seem large numbers of 'chinless wonder' Junior British Officers. Possibly right in part, but ignores the fact that there were also ANZAC officers and indeed ANZAC general staff, and that proportionally British Officers were more than likely to be killed or injured than any other section of the British Army and its Allies. This presentation of the story was probably because of/or a reason for one of the main financiers of the film being Rupert Murdoch well known for dispising the British establishment and ruling class, particularly after he was 'beasted' at Oxford by some of the British students who thought him an Oik.
It is more than fair to say that British troops suffered in the much the same way, there being almost three times the British casualties at the campaign than ANZAC troops, and a often forgotten fact that there was more French troops in the campaign than ANZAC.
