I couldn't let this one pass seeing I posted my one about D-Day. From a fellow Australian who gathered together family members of the crew of a downed ww2 aircraft and met with them in England. He has a quote to top mine.
We Canadians still have that problem as well, as all Canadians were "British Subjects" until 1949. Few Canadians are even aware of that. Both my parents served in WWII as British Subjects, with British Passports - there were no Canadian passports prior to that date. And then there was Newfoundland - the extra and most significant British colony. Very close to the Australians at Galipoli.
Though I knew that the Australian airmen were part of the EATS programme in Canada I must admit I was unaware of the amount of accidental death that occurred. In total there were 146 RAAF deaths which were buried in 49 cemeteries scattered all round Canada.
>>> I find such displays of ignorance as funny, worse still because of various programmes about WW1 being shown on British TV and i do not just mean, "Empire" which was very good. My Grandfather Dale, spent time at Etapes training Aussies to use the trench mortars. Mind you he still had to do his turn in the trenchs as well!
I was reminded of an incident during a german histiry seminar at Uni. We had a chap who boasted that he had A level History. The topic that we were discussing was why did germany not invade Britian. I said that after july 1941, Hitler had other things on his mind. This guy asked me what they were, I asked him, "What had happened in Germany" He said "he did not know" , I gave him a clue "Operation Barrbarosa"! "What was that" came the reply
The "A" probably stood for America and as they were not in the war yet, there was nothing to know/learn.