In Eric Bogle’s great anti-war song ‘The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ his narrator “lived the free life of the rover From the Murray’s green basin to the dusty outback I waltzed my Matilda all over” before he was called, like hundreds of Irishmen, to fight at Gallipoli.

Johnny Turk, he was ready, he primed himself well. 

A cousin of Noel and Liam Gallagher today appealed for the Oasis stars to consider writing the music score for a €20m movie being filmed in Ireland next year.