Kemal Ataturk:- "Those heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives, you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Tommies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side in this country of ours. You, the mothers who sent your sons from far away countries, wipe away your tears, your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land, they become our sons as well." Inscribed on the Gallipoli Memorial put up by Turkey in 1934, also on the Ataturk Memorial at Tarakina Bay, Wellington. http://www.allaboutturkey.com/gelibolu.htm Winston Churchill:- "In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. " The Gallipoli campaign was thought up by Churchill as a lightning strike, to catch the Turks by surprise. Whistle up the Dardanelles to Istanbul, and so open a second front to relieve pressure on the Flanders battlefields. By the time the Military had developed the plan, and spent six months preparing for it, there was little surprise... It was nevertheless a touch-&-go affair, which very nearly succeeded. Had it not been, literally, for Ataturk and a handful of men who stopped the advance at dusk. The generals then decided to leave it till the next day, by which time....