How true is it that Brits sent wave after wave of Aussies to the slaughter at Gallipoli because they didn't care about...

Canada was a settler state though, unless they exclusively sent natives.

myth, the aussies formed a minority in the gallipoli campaign.

as for not caring about troops they showed the same concern for the aussies as they showed to everyone else.

Most people in Canada & Newfoundland that went to war where either immigrants from the UK, or still held ties to the place.
Newfies in particular where willing to bleed for their right to remain a colony rather than join Canada up until it merged, which was a tad controversial.
I have neighbors in Ontario who still claim Canada kept forcing referendums until the odds went in their favour. I believe it was 52% in favour of Canada, which is surprising because Newfoundland was essentially ruined for its support of Britain in the wars and responsible government essentially guaranteed a miserable existence.

Soooooo... not much?

There's a great myth here in Australia that most of those deaths came from British orders and that Australian officers dreaded the orders but had to do it for "muh king and cuntry". In honesty, most of the orders came from Australian officers who either had no idea what they were doing or were determined to throw men at the enemy in order to break their lines.

The ANZAC myth is integral to the foundations of this country as a Federation. Even as early as the 1880's, Sir Henry Parkes was already planning to build a pre-emptive mausoleum for Australians who were to die in some "great war" which would unify the colonies.

>How true is it that Brits sent wave after wave of Aussies to the slaughter at Gallipoli because they didn't care about colonials?
Bullshit.
>Is it a myth to build up Australian nationalism...?
I don't know where the fuck this meme came from. This myth has not been pushed by any documentary I have seen or historian I have read. There's only a few Aussie retards that I've seen push it, and only here and the odd idiot in article comments, doesn't even seem that broadly held an opinion.

That stupid Mel Gibson movie is where it came from.

The CO was Aussie though, not English (Peter Weir BTW, Gibson only started).

starred* fucking auto-correct

well they wanted to minimise casualties up to a point, if only so they didnt run out of troops, but past that point they were willing to trade men for advantage

That isn't the point of the event, it's that as the other user posted it was a very bloody event (>50% casualties) in difficult terrain and one of our first major showings.