b'ANZAC DAYTHURSDAY 25TH APRIL 2019ANZACSomeGeneral Von Sanders. However, it was not bad luck, but rather timidANZAC Day Lunch& Random Thoughts and incompetent British command from their aborted naval penetrationCommemorative ServiceThe One Day of the Yearof the Dardanelles which gave approaches, the 104th AnniversaryAtaturk and Von Sanders threeTHURSDAY 25 APRILof the landing on the Gallipolimonths advance warning of the Peninsula, a day and a campaignlanding on Anzac Cove, and they layBREAKFAST 6.00 AM | LUNCH well-entrenched in the Australianin wait for the Australians and New12.00 PM | COMMEMORATIVE psyche. Zealanders to come ashore.SERVICE 3.00 PMAs a campaign, like most of theEvidence of, at best, bad elements of WWI, conditions andmanagement on behalf of theANZAC Day, our biggest day of the Year ultimatecasualtyrateswerehorrific British High Command or, at worst,will feature a lavish lunch in Cellos Grand and perhaps there is no betterincompetence, and this was evidentDining Room with a Commemorative description than that portrayedat both Gallipoli and on the WesternService to follow in the Reagh Bar.by a poem written by SapperFront. Reserve your place now for the J.C. Hackney in 1915 after theThere is no excuse, of course, foropportunity of attending this memorable Australians and New Zealanderssome of the heartless and irrationalluncheon, and to commemorate and had left the shores of Gallipoliplanning, if you can call it planning,honour our fallen, with the sounding of the behind them: which took 60,000 Australian livesLast Post to follow.What gone!The Australians gone! during World War I; it was not From ANZAC gone? until Australian General Sir JohnBreakfast$25 pp The lurid crater where for eightMonashsinfluencechangedthat Full buffet breakfast served from 6.00 am, long months philosophy in the latter stages of10% discount for Club Members.the war, that some competency was They lived with death, dined withexhibited at a senior command level.Lunch in Cellos$65 pp *disease,These comments of course are2-course set menu with main and dessert Til one in every two fell ill, and one made in a general sense onlyplus a glass of wine on arrival. *Inclusive of In every four were shot, and one because there were some good andMembers discount.In every eight lay dead. very competent commanders but these, in the main, rarely receive anyLUNCH MENUYes, gone! From ANZAC gone! kudos. Slow Cooked Beef Cheek with pea mash, And left behind eight thousandWhat then did Gallipoli contribute tocaramelised carrots and rosemary saucegraves. the national psyche?What more can be offered? ThisThe Australians were like aDate Pudding with Caramel Saucepoem sums up the eight-monthbrotherhood. It was, in fact,LUNCH BOOKINGS & PREPAYMENT campaign in eight lines! the epitome of the mateshipARE ESSENTIAL Generally, it is accepted byphilosophy-thiswasthefirst - Call Rita on 9284 1006 or email Australians that the campaign wastime those from former separate,admin@thecastlereagh.com.aua waste of time, that it had very littleindependent colonies had to work to offer to the total war effort, andtogether;itwasthefirsttimethatthat it was a shambles conductedpeople across all social classes and byincompetentBritishOfficers. walks of life had to mix, and mix in This is a common Australianthe most intimate manner.perception but, is it true? What doExtract from ANZAC - Some the experts say? Random ThoughtsIt was, perhaps, unfortunate andBy John Moore | Club Directorbad luck too that the forces onTHE FULL VERSION OF THIS Gallipoli encountered two of the best Commanders of World WarARTICLE CAN BE FOUND ON THE 1 on the oppositions side - KamalNSW MASONIC CLUB WEBSITE Ataturk and his German advisorwww.nswmasonicclub.com.au8NSW Masonic Club April 2019'