I am an old man but when a young one was an infantryman in Vietnam. The Aussies and Kiwis that served there were some of the finest troops. They had stone balls and they have my undying respect. Those brave young men of renown have had an enviable record at least since WW1. All I can say is good on you!

Excellent stuff! I wish more younger folks would watch docs like these but they're more concerned with video games and gov't handouts ....

They shall not grow old As we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, Nor the years condemn them At the going down of the sun And in the morning We will remember them!

I had a Great Grandfather who served in Gallipoli and the western front, he was a medic...Lest We Forget

As French l pay tribute to Australian & NZ troups. Thank you for this sacrifice

We lost my great uncle John James Gaul of the 1st division 6 th battalion KIA at the Somme on 23/8/1918 RIP uncle jimmy

I have respect for Australia for getting involved in world events. It would be easy not get involved in events because of their location in the world. They enter wars when they think it is right, send peacekeepers to countries that seem to be tearing themselves apart, give opinions on world events instead of safely just sitting quietly by. A lot of countries are not aggressors which is good but they will not lift a finger when events are going wrong in the world and do nothing to help.

Some great footage.Imagine going through that hell and surviving ,only for you or your family to lose their life to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.They were some tough times. At the time of the first world war, Australia had a total population of fewer than five million people,almost the same as the population of Sydney now....Out of them,416,809 men enlisted,of which over 62,000 were killed and 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner...Lest We Forget.

Truly amazing footage ! Thank you NFSA. Long may you continue doing such vital work for future generations

It was fortunate that the lessons learned at Gallipoli were used in Normandy. Churchill, the same man who was responsible for the disaster in WW 1, saw to it, this didn't happen in WW 2. In both cases, Australia and New Zealand were, and are to this day, the best allies one could have.

Grew up with my Great Great uncle, he taught me lots. I've inherited his medals, Wallace Penn. WW1 WW2. They went through hell. We will never forget there sacrifice.

Excellent presentation. Thanks for posting .

My great great great, grandfather was Aboriginal serviceman private 1741 Robert (bobby) beale of currabubula NSW, enlisted in Armidale 14 September 1915 and embarked from Sydney SS HAWKES BAY 23 October, served with 11 reinforcements 1st light horse regiment, subsequently got wounded in 1918 and returned to Australia in 1919, "lest we forget".

I love vietnam and australia because my dad australia my mom vietnam i like stadying history

Thank you so much I so appreciate this.

I had a relative who was an ANZAC in ww1 he fought at passchendale the Somme and many other places. Lest we forget

Lest We Forget. xxx

Thank-you for Sharing.😊

Amazing footage.

Excellent video. Absolutely perfect. 👍

my great granddad and hes brother are anzcas and they came back.. thank you to them and there mates.. lest we forget

Have watched this and the WW2 video. Great presentations.

Thank yous both past and living for allowing us to have our freedom there are no words to describe how brave and the horrors that yous had to of seen god bless yous all

Nice work, Barrie. Hope they told you it was going up. Available as a dvd for $24.95 (home use), though NFSA Films do not say so.

The Australia, New Zealand Army Corps. or ANZAC.

This is so old it makes me sad.

I watched this, after listening to the song "And the band played waltzing Matilda". That song is a great tribute, to this awesome old footage. I wonder if any camera men lost there lives?

Brilliant .............thanks for this

The men of the 1st AIF were a curious mob. Strait laced Empire boosters, undisciplined adventurers and reckless ne'er do wells (six bob a day tourists). None of them cared anything for authority and entrenched privilege. They were magnificent.

Amazing to see all Commonwealth countries (India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa etc.) come to the rescue of the "Motherland". The only true EMPIRE.

Excellent documentary, not too critical of the British. Surprised that Monash was mentioned only in respect of a bet!!! Much Australian criticism of the British military was no doubt justified but I would pose the question..."What would you have done?" Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Monash was a great leader who basically refused to give control of the Australian forces over to Haigh. I do admire him so much for his action.

Well the turkish footage that has been used is sadly not gallipoli. However it is from the turkish indepandace war of 1919 to 1922. because of the uniforms and the officer ranks are 1919 regulation.)

Awesome

good film

Does anyone know what the music in the background is called?

Lest we forget we will remember them all 🇦🇺

iove my ausie brothers forever. our best ally

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Lions all, as an Englishman I am so sorry you had our Ruperts for officers . Heroes rip lads .

legends 😌

Is John Laws, the narrator?

Such staunch humans. How tragic not being able to bring the loyal and trusty horses home. Lest we forget.

How the hell do you explain what is happening on the continent when you go on leave in London? It must have been a bizarre situation. One minute you're up to your chest in mud fighting the hun, next minute you're on the high street. Must have been surreal.

@ 31.01 they say that man in the fur cap is the Red Baron but he was a huge man of 6 foot 6 inches and really well built? That guy is average at best. The Baron's flying boots were ENOROUS like size 16! Anyone have an opinion please? He was a giant of a man OSIAT.

I’m Australian

471/ 14th Bat AIF

Lest we forget

Those men who have survived war, know why it's important to avoid the next one, but each generation must learn their own lessons, with each new face eager to rise in the ranks of the dead and forgotten. It doesn't help, that movies glorify the soldier, and make dying look so much different than it is in reality.

Top Troops ANZACS Lest we forget

the shall not grow old

OMG MY GREAT GREAT GRAMPAS IN THIS

Australia at war 1915 gallipoli wars 🇦🇺🇳🇿

Don't forget to dig, dig, .........dig, until you are safe.

The Australian Light Horse. 36 battles, 36 victories. If you want to know which battles, ask the late John Laffin. He wrote that in his book, "The Legend of the Australian Digger", or very similar. I don't doubt it though. They were all hard bitten men, and at the end of the war, thoroughly sick of their English Commanders. Allenby , "The Bull" was a piece of work, too. He paraded them after Surafend, made sure they were unarmed, then tore strips off them. He galloped away before the men had had too much. Australian troops must be led by Australians, not some drongo from another country!!

Greetings from Germany. All Poor guys. For what, she must to die?? But, a very interesting Doku.👍👍👍👍

I hate that we left all our horses over there never to return.

every time i think about the ANZAC's i get really sad because they risked there lives for us Australian's

I would imagine that many of the ANZACS who joined up to do their patriotic duty to the “motherland” I.e Great Britain regretted it as soon as they got into action, as did anyone serving during WWI, it wasn’t the great adventure that they had imagined or been led to believe, but one thing is for certain, and very rarely extolled (outside of AUS and NZ), the ANZACS were brilliant and feared fighting men, as were the vast majority of combat soldiers from many countries, but the Gallipoli “debacle” (wrongly blamed on Churchill) was all it took to turn raw, barely trained ANZACS into a very effective and disciplined (in the lines at least) fighting force, and again, as were many nations. I for one am very very glad that the ANZACS were on the side of the western allies, they would have been awful to have as an enemy, and who knows what the end result could have been, same goes for WWII, let’s hope there isn’t a WWIII, but with tensions the way they are in the Southern Hemisphere, especially between Australia and China, it could be our turn to have the ANZACS backs, (we’ll not me, I am a retired veteran and to old to do anything to help,) and I would say that’s the least we could do. Thanks ANZACS, RIP all those who fought and died to keep the world “free” and to free her from the despotic axis powers of WWII, Lest We Forget, I salute you ANZACS. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Im only 14 but i wanna be a ANZAC when i grow up, I want to make my family proud and be respected by my bully

I'm australian

16:42 looks like the guy with the arm cast is using an iphone

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Australian General John Monash was instrumental in winning WW1.

Thankfully, animals will be spared from the direct effect of human stupidity. In the next, all will be eliminated equally. There will be another, no trenches, protracted death, just overall destruction.

"... totally unlike their own..."??? Aussies had deserts, a myriad camels, Afghans, heat for a generations before WWI.

Lest We Forget, this 106th ANZAC Day.

These men paid for Churchill's blunder what a waste of fine troops.

Playback speed 0.6

Osi osi osi,OI,OI,OI XD

Crikey! Imagine doin' that to th' poor bloody Gypos an' ol' Johnny Turk ~ inflictin' a mob o' Aussies an' Kiwis on em'! What is this war comin' to? ;) Mademoiselle from Armentiers, Parlez vous! Mademoiselle from Armentiers, Parlez vous! The Mademoiselle from Armentiers , She hasn't been kissed for forty years, Inky, pinkie, parlez vous!

This does show what and where they fought. It glosses over so much death and destruction though. Almost like a propaganda film for those on the home front. R.I.P. boys..MEN!

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They died For England.

It was a false sense of duty why Australians got involved and did not have too because no danger to the nation existed Cost the lives of two members in my extended family and ruined another with post traumatic stress disorder

VERY annoying 'music'...!

THIS DOCUMENTARY: Some of the worst background trumpeting in the world.

That comment about when "the navy fails" (about 4.40) refers explicitly and only to the British Navy (with some French vessels). What's too often forgotten in all the honouring of the AIF is the place and activities of the Royal AUSTRALIAN Navy - after Sydney's encounter with the Emden. My father was on HMAS Sydney in 1917, when it fought a duel with a Zeppelin in the North Sea. There's a painting of the encounter here at the Australian War Memorial - www.awm.gov.au/collection/C174886. For most of the war, Sydney and Melbourne were patrolling in the Caribbean and along the South American coast, looking for sanction-busting vessels attempting to get through to Germany from (then) neutral America.

Who is the narrator?

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