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Mr. Dunn reflects on the human cost of war, referencing his areas of action, and questions the deployment of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment to Gallipoli.
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. . . beat the Germans, and they beat us all to pieces. Because we had, we lost . . . 801 went over, 68 answered the roll call the next morning. Over 700. Three hundred and sixty-four I believe was killed, 95 missing, and the rest wounded. The empire lost, I suppose, probably couple of millions of people. And Dardanelles was a failure. They sent us out there and there was thousands and thousands of New Zealanders and Australians and English that died out there, and they had to leave it. I don’t know why they sent we there, we were a picked regiment you know. We didn’t have . . . not too many of us 25. Hundreds, we had hundreds around 20 and 18 and that. No, very few over 25. And we could march with anything at all, and no regiment could keep up with us.