<P> There has been no finer feat in this war than this sudden landing in the dark and the storming of the heights...General Birdwood told the writer that he couldn't sufficiently praise the courage, endurance and the soldierly qualities of the Colonials (The Australians) were happy because they had been tried for the first time and not found wanting . </P> <P> Also in 1915, in response to the reporting of the efforts of the great Australian troops, the Australian poet Banjo Paterson wrote "We're All Australians Now", including the verse: </P> <P> The mettle that a race can show </P> <P> Is proved with shot and steel, And now we know what nations know </P>

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