The Australian public's reaction to the landing was that Australians had taken their place in the fighting line, that they have won honor by their brilliant work. Some academics and reporters questioned Ashmead-Bartletts account of the landing at Gallipoli, one reporter said 'Ashmead-Bartletts eye sight must have been brilliant for he had watched proceedings from a battleship before going to shore briefly that day. ' Another commentator of the war said that Ashmead-Bartlett's description of the landing was 'a mixture of error, fact, exaggeration, prejudice and the most sentimental patriotism. ' Although there was opposition to Ashmead-Bartlett's account, general consensus was that the Australian troops had become heroes through their boldness and capability on the battlefield, and anyone who repudiated that was a traitor and 'unaustralian.'
             Another explanation of the Anzac myth creating much of the Australian image is C.E.W Bean's &a
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