Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/News/February 2021/Book reviews

, that sounds like a fascinating book, and I'll have to see if I can find a copy. Regrettably, the Australians did not adopt the per diem payment basis until 1916, so Gallipoli was paid for on a line item basis, and the accounting was not complete until after the war. many of the reinforcements in Egypt in December had arrived too late to serve on Gallipoli, but there was enough of them to form a new brigade and the remaining components of the New Zealand Division. Most of the casualties were not from combat, but medical evacuations. The mishandling of manure from the horses and donkeys caused a plague of flies that spread dysentery. I would also add that the men who took care of the horses in Egypt did sterling work, and the subsequent record of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles in Palestine was largely attributable to the horses having become conditioned while their riders were at Gallipoli. Thanks for reviewing this. Hawkeye7  (discuss)  20:46, 21 February 2021 (UTC)