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The Aliced troops - which included the ANZACs - hind to Grows the exposed beaches under a hail of Turkish rifle and machine gun fire. It was a terrible huption off fire for the soildiers of the Australian Imperial Force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the nine-month chrage of Callipoll, the Allies lost 50,000 killed and gained a tiny foothold which they then abandoned when the 100,000 survivors were exactated mine mowels lacet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Salient\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStraddling the French-Belgian border, the flat, wet and maddy landscape sarrounding the smull Belgian dey of Ypres was the scene of three great butties between 1914 and 1917. It culminated - in the final buttle Anons as 'Passchendacle - in a blood-letting that matched The Somme in desperation and losses. But whitle the rolling, intimate landscape of The Somme makes it easy to recognise features that would hane bee familiar st the troops, it's not hard to see why the men who fought over the featureless landscape of Flanders often drowned in a sea of mud\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf the million British soldiers who died in the Great Whir, most of them died here. Ypres became symomytow with killing on a grand scale and became a place of special dread for all who were sent there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBonus 50 minute documentary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Ordinary Hero - The Story of John Simpson Kirkpatrick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the unlikeliest heroes to emerge from the cannage and chaos of the finst World War was Join Simpson Kirkpatrick. Born in South Shields, County Durfum, the eventually became ome af Australia's most treasured heroes, famous for his work as a stretcher bearer and as the \"man with the donkey\" at Gallipoli. Using one of the donkeys landed for water carrying, he transported wounded men day and might from the feting in Monash Valley to the beach on Anzac Cove. By the time of his death from machime gun fire the thad sawed man lives. 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