WW2 question

[julius]

I'm remembering a story about two countries (I want to say Greece and Australia, because I remember hearing about it during the Olympics one year) where country A sent soldiers to country B.

And the soldiers of country A died in country B.

And that country B later told country A that the men who died were now considered "sons of country B", and meant it as a show of respect for the soldiers of country A.

Well, something like that. I don't remember though, if country A sent the soldiers to help county B, or invade/help invading forces. But I remember there being a story about it on TV, and how emotional the countries were now about these men, and in essence saying that they were no longer considered enemy combatants/strangers in their land.

Does anyone remember anything close to this?

 

[MarAzul]

Perhaps this is what you were thinking.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ar...opean_caretakers_of_american_soldiers_graves/

 

[julius]

Nope, wasn't anything to do with the US, US Soldiers or Americans of any sort.

 

[oldmangrouch]

Perhaps it had to do with the British/Australian forces that helped the Greeks defend Crete from the Axis invasion?

 

[jlprk]

Narrow it down to help us. Was A at war with B, or its ally? Has B gone through an ideology reversal, so that it now agrees that B soldiers should have been sent to A?

 

[julius]

Perhaps it had to do with the British/Australian forces that helped the Greeks defend Crete from the Axis invasion?

That sounds very familiar...I think that's it.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

Was it Gallipoli? Which was the Anzacs, which were made up of Australian and New Zealand troops in Turkey in WWI. Lots of Aussies Kiwis visit Turkey to visit the war memorial there.

 

[DUB]

Yes, you're thinking about the ANZACs (Australia and New Zealand Army Corp) who died fighting the Turks on the Gallipoli peninsula during WWI.

Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side now here in this country of ours... you, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

This was written by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk the commander of Turkish forces at Gallipoli at the time, who later became the first President of Turkey, and is viewed as the father of modern Turkey.

 

[speeds]

As for WW2 the Dutch honour Canadians to a similar extent.