"Silence on the Somme
September 08, 2007 MOST of us know much more about Gallipoli than we do about the Western Front and the Somme battlefields, and we tend to look on the ill-fated Anzac campaign as our country's finest hour. Few Australians know enough about the part played by the Diggers on the Somme battlefields to compare it seriously with what the Anzacs did at Gallipoli. Yet nearly 10 times the number of soldiers fought at the Somme than did at Gallipoli and they fought more than five times as long, in equally shocking conditions."
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