The amazing thing about it is that they managed to do what was asked of them; seal the breach in the line caused by the German gas attack; otherwise history might have been very different; The Ypres salient cut off, 10s of thousands of men captured and the Germans powering towards Paris once more.
Amble pitmen with rifles turning world history. The truth really is stranger than fiction.
Although there's quite a fuss about Gallipoli, it was always a secondary theatre; on the western front though in April 1915 we could have lost the war.
|