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The song describes war as futile and gruesome, and criticises its glorification. This is exemplified in the song by the account of a young Australian who is maimed during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War. The protagonist, who had travelled across rural Australia before the war, is devastated by the loss of his legs in battle.
A Ballad for Çanakkale (Çanakkale türküsü) is a Turkish folk song about the Battle of Gallipoli which occurred during World War I on the Gallipoli Peninsula. It was arranged by Muzaffer Sarısözen, with the lyrics of a local bard, İhsan Ozanoğlu , of Kastamonu .
Gallipoli also had a significant impact on popular culture, including film, television and song. [297] In 1971, Scottish-born Australian folk singer-songwriter Eric Bogle wrote a song called " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda " which consisted of an account from a young Australian soldier who was maimed during the Gallipoli campaign.
The landing has been commemorated in song on several occasions. Two of the best-known songs contain historical contradictions that confuse the landings at Suvla and Anzac. A song "Suvla Bay," which is believed to have been written during World War I but first copyrighted and published in 1944, has been recorded by many artists. [5]
Anzacs (named for members of the all volunteer army formations) is a 1985 Australian five-part television miniseries set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the 8th Battalion (Australia) of the First Australian Imperial Force in 1914, fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, and then on the Western Front for the remainder of the war.
Sing was born on 3 March 1886 in Clermont, Queensland, Australia, the son of a Chinese father and an English mother. [4] [7] [8] [9] His parents were John Sing (c. 1842–1921), a drover from Shanghai, China, and Mary Ann Sing (née Pugh; c. 1857–unknown), a nurse from Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England.
James Charles Martin (3 January 1901 – 25 October 1915) was the youngest Australian known to have died in World War I.He was only 14 years and nine months old when he succumbed to typhoid during the Gallipoli campaign. [1]
Verses in the Gallipoli song include: "At least when I asked them, that's what they told me" and "Where the old Gallipoli sweeps down to the sea". Australian baritone Peter Dawson popularised the song in the 1920s. The song featured on the 1958 album, The Immortal Percy French, featuring the voice of Irish tenor Brendan O'Dowda.