On the morning of April 25, 1915, the first wave of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed under intense Turkish fire on the Gallipoli Peninsula. When the Anzacs crept away, defeated, eight months later, 7594 Australians had been killed and more than 19,000 had been wounded. About one-fifth of the men engaged in this tragic and mismanaged encounter were under the age of twenty-one, boys who were fired with loyalty for a nation itself not yet fifteen years old. This is the story of two of those boys.
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