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Archie Hamilton [|(Mark Lee)] is an 18 year old teenager and lives in Western Australia, he is a stockman and a prize winning sprinter. Archie longs to enlist in the army. During a cattle roundup Archie runs into a local bully Les McCann, they race against each other under the condition that Archie runs barefoot and that Les will ride on his horse bareback. Archie wins but his got horribly mangled, only a few days before an athletics carnival. Eventually Archie and his uncle travel to the athletics carnival, meanwhile Frank Dunne [|(Mel Gibson)]is an unemployed rail labourer who has run out of money. He's a fast runner, though, and hopes to win the prize money at the athletics carnival. However, he is deeply impressed when Archy defeats him. As a result, Frank approaches Archie, who has been turned away from the enlistment board for being under age. Ultimately, he and Frank decide to travel to Perth to enlist. Archie and Frank are completely broke and decide to hop onto a freight train, but when they awake they are stopped at an isolated train station. Frank Dunne and Archie are forced to walk across the desert in order to get to Perth, on the way there they get directions from camel rider. Archie and Frank stop for the night at a nearby ranch, upon arriving at [|Perth] they arrange to stay at Frank's fathers house who is an Irish immigrant. Due to Frank's Irish heritage, he doesn't think much of fighting for the British, but because of his friendship with Archie he is persuaded to fight for them, he tries to join the light horse with Archie but fails and enlists in the infantry with three of his other mates from the railway, Bill, Barney and Snowy.After enlisting, all soldiers embark on a transport ship bound for Cairo. Frank and Archie are separated and embark on different troopships.In Egypt for training, Frank and his fellow soldiers train near the [|Pyramids of Giza]and spend their free time in Cairo, drinking and visiting brothels. During a training exercise, Frank and Archie meet once again; and Frank is able to transfer to the Light Horse, as they are now being sent to the [|Gallipoli peninsula]as infantrymen. Frank and Archie arrive at Anzac Cove in the dead of night and, over the next several days, endure the hardships and boredom of trench warfare. Frank's infantry friends fight in the Battle of Lone Pine on the evening of 6 August. Afterwards, a traumatized Bill tells Frank what happened to the others: Barney was shot and killed, and Snowy is in a hospital, but in such bad condition that he is denied food and water. His last request to Frank is that his diary be sent to his parents. The following morning, Archie and Frank are ordered to take part in the charge at the Nek, which is to act as a diversion in support of the British landing at [|Suvla Bay].

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