From "Fighting Men" (Elkin Mathews 1916) pp 51-52.
Also reprinted in a book of World War 1 poetry called WAR VERSE, edited by Frank Foxcroft, published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, US, © 1918, pp. 153-154, and originally printed in the magazine "The Spectator."

This poem focuses on the abandonment of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in 1916. Thousands of Australian troops were mowed down by the Turks, and there were bitter recriminations resulting from this failed invasion.

"ANZAC" referred to the troops of the Australia New Zealand Army Corps.