This paper will consider the 1965 pilgrimage to Gallipoli by 311 Australian and New Zealand veterans. This was the first mass pilgrimage by veterans to the site of the nation's mythical birth on 15 April 1915, and was widely reported at the time, most notable in Ken Inglis's articles for the Canberra Times. For various reasons, Inglis wrote about the pilgrimage in largely positive term. But a closer consideration of Inglis's unpublished drafts, other notes and materials in the Inglis papers in the National Library of Australia, and the archival records of the RSL suggest that the pilgrimage was in fact a calamity. This paper will expose what went wrong and why, and will suggest why Inglis portrayed it in much more positive terms than it warranted.