sven hassell
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I would say a military blunder worth mentioning was that nobody realised Gurkha's were too short to use standard trenches in ww1 and that if they dug their own more shallow trenches the their taller British officers would fall foul to snipers.
It is so obvious but still they were deployed as such and suffered horrendous losses because of it.
The entire Gallipoli campaign was a blunder resulting in approx 3000 Kiwis, 9000 Aussies,21000 British,10000 French and 1500 Indian and Gurkha casualties that were almost totally unnecessary
It is so obvious but still they were deployed as such and suffered horrendous losses because of it.
The entire Gallipoli campaign was a blunder resulting in approx 3000 Kiwis, 9000 Aussies,21000 British,10000 French and 1500 Indian and Gurkha casualties that were almost totally unnecessary