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Among the reasons I march every ANZAC day is
to pay homage to those who died needlessly.
I am particulary saddened by the horrific, needless deaths of the sailors who died
in
HMAS Voyager and HMAS Sydney.
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Nothing better exemplifies needless deaths than the Battle of the Nek at Gallipoli (shown below) when 234 Australians were killed and 138 were wounded, mown down within minutes of charging into a hail of machine gun fire armed only wiith bayonets fixed to their rifles.
Those who charged were ordered to leave their magazines behind to prevent them stopping to fire their rifles.
Three waves went over the top before part of the fourth wave was prevented from following because someone realised that continuing the attack was madness and had the sense to stop the carnage.
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HMAS Voyager.
Place the pointer over it to see what happened
when it was cut in half by HMAS Melbourne.
Some of the survivors of the sinking of HMAS Voyager, most of them coated in furnace fuel oil.
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The Battle of the Nek. Place the pointer over it to hear ''And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda'.
HMAS Sydney
In WWII, the German raider Kormoran, disguised as a merchant ship, lured the captain of the Sydney into close range and sank her causing her entire crew to be lost. Place the pointer over it to see it in action against the Kormoran.
The loss of HMAS Sydney with her entire crew of 645 (shown above) was Australia's worst naval disaster. Although the Sydney sank the Kormoran,
318 of Kormoran's crew survived, Conspiracy theories abound, because lifeboats from the Sydney had been sprayed with machine gun fire.
