08-29-2004, 10:04 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 2,316
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Originally Posted by Belial
I'm well aware of the ANZAC involvement in WW1. It's very difficult to be educated in Australia and not be told wonderful tales of the "ANZAC spirit".
Now, maybe I'm naive, but I'm pretty sure there was no fighting anywhere near Australia in WW1, nor any fighting anywhere that threatened Australia's sovreignity.
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Indeed there was fighting near us in ww1 Papua was a German colony taken by Australia. There was naval fighting as well. A German light crusier (Emden) was sunk off WA.
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