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Submitted by margaret, Feb 21, 2008 21:20

Recently I discovered that I had a great uncle in the Imperial Camel Corps. I have known since I was a child that my grandfather, his brother, was a stretcher bearer at the Western Front, this because he refused to bear arms when he enlisted after being sent a white feather anonymously in the post. They were 2 of 3 brothers, the youngest too young to enlist, born in Sydney (!! so far from the "mother (?) country" !!), near the turn of the century.
So I was interested to read this article and I remembered how, in a country town in New South Wales in the Sixties, home on school holidays from my Sydney school, I went alone to see the film with Peter O'Toole as Lawrence of Arabia at the local cinema. Oh the glamour that Hollywood imbued that mythic figure with! And recently when I went to the Australian War Memorial to see an exhibition To Flanders Field I found that I was too late, it had been replaced by another, depicting Lawrence of Arabia in his flowing apparel and the exploits of that arena of war. I couldn't see it, I was too disappointed that I had missed Flanders Field 1917. War is war ... but the horror of The Western Front and firstly, the tragedy of Gallipoli is what created the ANZAC legend, and Peter Weir's film Gallipoli should be seen by all.

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