He said: “Even for us going back over the ground, picking our route back to 1915 and the Dardanelles, there are difficulties. Because, for us, we are now navigating another, nearer landscape of chaos. New names in a long litany of horror – Mariupol, Bucha and Kharkiv.

“We read our history afresh and we are freshly sensitive to what war does. The narratives look a bit less sure, don’t they? We feel a bit less confident when violence can be so sudden and political will so arbitrary, so senseless.”

The Dean went on to say: “In the foxholes of Anzac cove, the bunkers of shattered cities in Ukraine, in the depths of distancing and isolation in the pandemic, we learn again and again what it is to be thrown back on just our human recourses. The horror builds and you have your humanity or you have the indifferent gods.”