In this essay I will why gallipoli is more significant than the somme.
I believe that Australia's involvement in any war does not and will never receive comparable recognition. I believe this because Gallipoli is the most recognized war from Australia's history and most well know and many people would not know about the other battles that Australia participate in, in World War 1. Australia did not contribute as much to the Somme war. The war was more about the british improving their warfare tactics. The british suffered 420,000 casualties with the french only losing 200,000.
The battle of somme was a dis advantages to the AIF(Australian Imperial Forces) france and the british.
The landscape of the battle of somme after 100 year still …show more content…
Outside was an inferno of machine gunfire and falling shells. Australians were throwing bombs into holes, clubbing Germans, taking others prisoner. It was also an action in which tanks were used in combat for the first time.Even tho tanks were used for the first time in this war it is no were as famous as the gallipoli war. The war changed australia a lot in different aspects.
The battle of the Somme changed Australia in many way because it is one of the bloodiest wars in WW1. Gallipoli didn't get close to to the sheer amount of deaths in the Somme had the most deaths in the battle over all but the germans and the allies. The war changed all laws and rights of australia. Politics, Economy, rites of women, job development and creation, and civil uprising against german-born australians.
To develop the anzac legend the australians would have to fight as there own identity. it would be assumed that the ANZACs, in the battle of the Somme, would have had to have grown and possessed shared certain characteristics The battlefield of Gallipoli would have possessed more inconveniences than that of the Somme to the ANZACs
The differences between the wars are
I believe that Australia's involvement in any war does not and will never receive comparable recognition. I believe this because Gallipoli is the most recognized war from Australia's history and most well know and many people would not know about the other battles that Australia participate in, in World War 1. Australia did not contribute as much to the Somme war. The war was more about the british improving their warfare tactics. The british suffered 420,000 casualties with the french only losing 200,000.
The battle of somme was a dis advantages to the AIF(Australian Imperial Forces) france and the british.
The landscape of the battle of somme after 100 year still …show more content…
Outside was an inferno of machine gunfire and falling shells. Australians were throwing bombs into holes, clubbing Germans, taking others prisoner. It was also an action in which tanks were used in combat for the first time.Even tho tanks were used for the first time in this war it is no were as famous as the gallipoli war. The war changed australia a lot in different aspects.
The battle of the Somme changed Australia in many way because it is one of the bloodiest wars in WW1. Gallipoli didn't get close to to the sheer amount of deaths in the Somme had the most deaths in the battle over all but the germans and the allies. The war changed all laws and rights of australia. Politics, Economy, rites of women, job development and creation, and civil uprising against german-born australians.
To develop the anzac legend the australians would have to fight as there own identity. it would be assumed that the ANZACs, in the battle of the Somme, would have had to have grown and possessed shared certain characteristics The battlefield of Gallipoli would have possessed more inconveniences than that of the Somme to the ANZACs
The differences between the wars are