An extremely good song - But - From the "Band Played Waltzing Matilda".

First verse contains the lines:

"Then in 1915 my country said, "Son,
It's time you stop rambling, there's work to be done."
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they marched me away to the war."

As tin hats weren't issued to all until 1916 the hat he would have been given would have mostly likely been a "Slouch Hat".

Second verse contains the lines:

"And how well I remember that terrible day,
How our blood stained the sand and the water
And of how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.
Johnny Turk, he was ready, he primed himself well.
He showered us with bullets, and he rained us with shells,
And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to hell,
Nearly blew us back home to Australia."

Description of the actual landings at Suvla Bay:
The landings were begun at 10pm on the evening of 6 August with 20,000 troops set down at Suvla Bay ('A', 'B' and 'C' Beaches) with virtually no Turkish opposition other than from sniper fire.

The scenes being described in Eric Bogle's song are the first landings at Helles and Gaba Tepe (ANZAC Cove) on the 25th April, not Suvla Bay.

The rest of the song is spot on though.

Casualties for the entire campaign were as follows:

Turkish Forces - 250,000 total - 65,000 killed
British Forces - 205,000 total - 43,000 killed
ANZAC Forces   - 33,600 total - 11,200 killed
French Forces - 47,000 total - 5,000 killed

Lest We Forget.