European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Gallipoli Allied Soldier Wheeling artillery into position during the world War ii Battle of Gallipoli in 1915. World War ii recruiting poster from the australian state of South Australia. Continued from Page 13 looming Over narrow beaches. And with the five weeks granted them to re fortify the defenders increased their troops on Gallipoli by a Factor of six every Man they could Muster. Johnnie Turk was  a a waiting on the ships were the Gurhg to lads from England Australia new zealand and France the soon to be Cannon fodder. The aussies and new sealanders together called Anzac going to their. First great Battle were cheerfully up for the fray not with blood lust but As thrilling sporting tests of manhood. Moreover the spirit of the Day among Many englishmen was that going to world War i was really quite something. They went with songs to the Battle an Early War poem put it. English poet Warrior Rupert Brooke and his patriotic sonnets epitomized the Early mood of romantics on a latter Day crusade. Going to Gallipoli. To Brooke the very sound was loaded with mystery beckoning glory Homeric associations. Here was the just cause the shining quest. He turned Down a staff Job to get close to the heart of Battle. The poet was Happy eager to meet Fate in a stirring joust. A do you think a he wrote a perhaps the fort on the Asiatic Corner will want quelling. And  make a sortie and meet us on the Plains of Troy. Will heroes Tower crumble ? will the sea be  and wine dark and  shall i loot mosaics from St. Sophia and turkish Delight and carpets.?"how wonderfully challenging it All seemed How absolutely the right thing to do this a half Joy of living. Half readiness to  but then the Young Man so charged full of idealism and Genius died All the Way. Quot he expected to die a wrote Churchill. Quot he was ready to die and. And he advanced toward the Brink in perfect serenity with absolute conviction of the rightness of his country s  Brooke was put out of action before he Ever reached the Battle. An insect bite that got infer put him out said one account. Sunstroke that ird to blood poisoning put him out said another. / then his burial by torchlight amid the Olive Grove and Lemon Trees on the Lovely Island of Skyros i seemed As he had written an event pregnant a gathered radiance Quot and Cloudy glory. But it Gallipoli. The poets was a gentler death than a comrades in the first Waves of the expedition i Force a some 75,000 troops jammed into Amo Fleet of 200 ships and boats a would suffer Days later and almost blessed compared to we half million Allied soldiers endured in the nine months ahead As they found this kind of a rpt dashing game playing but a bloody horror a a a the landings on Gallipoli were an ill co ordinal mess. Even those that went unopposed sat la invaders milling around on the thin beaches in shadows of the Cliffs not pressing the attack missing opportunities to Roll up the turks from rear. Other landings poorly led by inexperience officers with Green troops going ashore on impossible terrain far from designated i31�111 zones useless maps in hand became a Bloo mess. At v Beach troops struggling ashore beached transport an improvised Way to Ian me met by a storm of fire. It a watching the sea turn red from the safety of Queen Elizabeth Gen. Hamilton described j scene As Quot monstrous. Men fixed in Nightmare. We were powerless. To oneself was like being stretched upon the lying Bullet riddled on a blood washed beat Wasny to pleasant either. Though the Landi g eventually consolidated they were going partly due to an Allied Chain of comm two links of Putty partly due to a turkish seer called Kemal Ataturk Quot the Saviour of Gamp Quot All troops were now ashore Quot goes one account Quot but lacking vigorous leaders p Page 14 a a a the stars and stripes