Gallipoli: Drone video of WWI battlefield - BBC News

For ANZAC day.

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The BBC News drone was flown over the Gallipoli peninsula to capture the historic sites where so many died. Friday marks the start of commemorations around the world for those who died in the fight for the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli. The forces of the Ottoman Empire repelled an attack from the British Army, soldiers from Commonwealth countries including Australia, New Zealand, India and Canada, and France.
Between April 1915 and the Allied withdrawal in January 1916, more than 130,000 men were killed on the two sides.

Drone pilot: Neil Paton. Editor: Nikki Nahal. Producer: Jim Buchanan.
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Such a tremendous waste of young lives.

And I can't help but wonder, no Willie McBride,
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?"
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.

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