I did a bit of research Magnum, for those curious: Gallipoli is a peninsula on the European side of the Dardanelles. Landings of Allied forces were made from the 25th April 1915, with the Australian and New Zealand troops going ashore on a beach, later named Anzac Cove. Turkish resistance was strong and though further landings were made, the campaign bogged down in trench warfare. After each side had suffered a quarter of a million casualties (8,587 Australians were killed and 19,367 wounded) the allies successfully evacuated the peninsula without further loss between December 1915 and January 1916. (source: The Oxford Australian Reference Dictionary) I'm fairly sure the guy with the Donkey's name was Simpson...whatever his name was, he was pretty brave, as were all the people involved, and I bet a lot of them were pretty scared most of the time too. The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.