In terms of far removed places my paternal Grandfather won the Military Cross at the battle of Sheikh Sa'ad in Mesopatamia in January 1916( modern day Iraq/Northwestern Syria )against the forces of the Ottoman Empire , bit of a pyrrhic victory 2000 Allied dead & 2400 wounded.
He also fought at the Somme & Ypres , he had an amazingly diverse war during which he campaigned on foot in the infantry , on a horse in the cavalry & culminated by flying a plane in the RFC ( Royal Flying Corps ) the forerunner of the RAF.
He joined as a private & was commissioned in the field ending the war as a Captain, he was a great man & I'm hugely proud of him & I still have all his service medals including the aforementioned Military Cross in it's presentation case .
In the First and Second World War's they weren't fighting the locals.
In Mesopotamia? In Gallipoli? I think you will find that they were.
Both of those locations were part of the Turkish Empire at the time, and, particularly at Gallipoli, the enemy troops were Turks.
Gallipoli was part of the Turkish Empire in the same way that Somerset was part of the British Empire.
Yes at Gallipoli, thousands of young men from Britain, Ireland and especially Australia and New Zealand travelled half way around the world to bring war to the locals.
Historians have a negative view of the motivations of all parties in the whole war. It's a case study in why secret pacts and jingoistic politicians are a bad idea. There were no good guys and bad guys, just kids killing each other. Then again, that's the norm in most wars.As for the motivation of the parties, well historians generally have a negative view of the allies motivation, but lets stick to the facts.
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