The scourge of privilage

One is drawn to the conclusion reading the events of the Gallipoli campaign that there are two types of combatants, excluding the enemy. The British command including some of the British soldiers and the Anzacs. 
The contrast is clear and is determined by the scourge of privilege.
The British Generals and staff were drawn from a class who were automatically elected to lead. Their vowels were their pass into positions of influence, nothing else was needed other than breeding.  It was the wrong sort of breeding. It was suited to the estate and the city and not the events that were needed trying to establish a bridgehead on a rocky promontory of land where tactics needed flexibility and an understanding of the forces under their command.
It's not that some of them were not brave, it was that they were fixed in aspic, unable because of their training since childhood at boarding school not to accept the situation as it was seen but rather as it was perceived by their Seniors. The hierarchy principle had fed them their position in life and they were not going to disband their futures from it. 
A hierarchy is a useful proposition since order comes from leadership but when the leaders were so woefully  out of their depth and conducted themselves with total abandonment of the faith their troops had in them it was not only dangerous but criminal.
In contrast the Anzac troops were led by men who were not weighed down with "School" and old school tie. They were made out of much the same material as the men in the trenches and because there was a bond which extended both ways they were efficient as a fighting force.
Whilst the British Generals squandered men because they had no physical or mental connection,  the Anzac command were on the front line analysing and amending the battle.
The Commander in Chief General Hamilton was out of touch on another island. One of his second in command, General Stopford had set up headquarters on a boat The Jonquil  and lounged the precious hours away incommunicado. General Hammersley, Hamilton's other commander was little better and so as 20,000 men were landed, opposed by only 1500 Turkish soldiers little or no progress was made through the inertia of the mindset of the Generals.
A window of opportunity was squandered to seize the ground and win the battle. Instead they waited on the beach whilst the Turks pulled in their reserves and were able to prevent the opportunity from taking place. 
The real  losers were the thousands of dead soldiers who afterword had to lay down their lives to take the same, now well defended land.
"Led by donkeys" was a phrase that described many theatres in the First World War but no more so than the Gallipoli campaign where the contrast between the craft and the leadership shown by General Birdwood's Anzac forces, men who had volunteered and were drawn from the tough Australian / New Zealand people, people used to getting on and solving their own day to day problems in civilian life, who mixed as a social group and who accepted no man as his better unless he earned it. 
Contrasted with the inbred, socially dysfunctional British Upper Class one pity's the soldiers but since the situation hasn't changed and the same people lead us now we are the ones who should be pitied !!