A successful first campaign would change how Australia and New Zealand remembered their entry into the war. The formative story would still be one of fire and sacrifice, but its central image would be operational victory rather than heroic endurance during evacuation. Gallipoli would remain a national founding experience while carrying a different lesson about the effectiveness of Anzac forces in coalition warfare. This short passage shows how an operational outcome can reshape remembrance without erasing loss.
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How victory could reshape the Anzac memory
A successful first campaign could make Gallipoli a founding story of Anzac victory rather than endurance amid defeat.