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  Anzac Day
ANZAC Day (25 April) is the most important national day of commemoration for Australians.
ANZAC Day at the Memorial 2007 - photographs from previous ANZAC Day ceremonies in Canberra (2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000).
ANZAC Day Photography Project - photographs of the 1999 ANZAC Day celebrations in a variety of towns in south-eastern New South Wales
www.awm.gov.au /commemoration/anzac   (289 words)

  
 The Anzac Day Tradition
An early use of the poppy on Anzac Day was in 1940 in Palestine, where it grows in profusion in the spring.
One traditional recitation on Anzac Day is the first stanza of the poem "For the fallen" by Laurence Binyon.
Its use on Anzac Day may have originated with the Queensland Anzac Day Commemoration Committee, which placed it on the cover of a collection of sermons and addresses for Anzac Day published in 1921.
www.anzacday.org /anzac_day_tradition.htm   (1125 words)

  
 The Anzac Day Tradition [Australian War Memorial]
The date, 25 April, was officially named ANZAC Day in 1916; in that year it was marked by a wide variety of ceremonies and services in Australia, a march through London, and a sports day in the Australian camp in Egypt.
With the coming of the Second World War, ANZAC Day became a day on which to commemorate the lives of Australians lost in that war as well, and in subsequent years the meaning of the day has been further broadened to include Australians killed in all the military operations in which Australia has been involved.
ANZAC Day was first commemorated at the Australian War Memorial in 1942, but due to government orders preventing large public gatherings in case of Japanese air attack, it was a small affair and was neither a march nor a memorial service.
www.awm.gov.au /commemoration/anzac/anzac_tradition.htm   (1132 words)

  
 ANZAC Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ANZAC Day is also a public holiday in Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa and Tonga.
ANZAC Day was not gazetted as a public holiday in New Zealand until 1921, after lobbying by the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association, the RSA.
The number of New Zealanders attending ANZAC Day events in New Zealand, and at Gallipoli, is increasing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ANZAC_Day   (1345 words)

  
 ANZAC Day - Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
During the Second World War, ANZAC Day became a day on which the lives of all Australians lost in war time were remembered.
The ANZACs landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula at dawn on the 25th April and met fierce resistance.
April 25, ANZAC Day, was the day the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915.
www.acn.net.au /articles/anzac   (1930 words)

  
 Anzac Cove - Gallipoli / Turkey. Anzac Day Cove Turkey
Anzac Cove (in Turkish Anzak Koyu) is a small, cove on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey made famous as the site of the First World War landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) on April 25, 1915.
Anzac Cove was always within a kilometer of the front-line, well within the range of Turkish artillery though spurs from the high ground of Plunge's Plateau, which rose above Ari Burnu, provided some protection.
Over the years Anzac Beach has suffered from erosion and the construction of the coast road from Gaba Tepe to Suvla, originally started by Australian engineers just prior to the evacuation of Anzac in December 1915, resulted in the beach being further reduced and bounded by a steep earth embankment.
www.anzacgallipolitour.com /anzacdaycove.html   (673 words)

  
 Anzac Day Tours Gallipoli And Anzac Day
Anzac Day Tours, it is taken for granted as part of the ANZAC ethos and few wonder how it all started.
Gallipoli Tours, Its story, as it were, Gallipoli Anzac Day Tour, is buried in a small cemetery carved out of the bush some kilometres outside the northern Queensland town of Herberton, Anzac day tours.
For most, Gallipoli tour, though, the day is an occasion on which to formally pay tribute and to remember, Travel to Anzac Day Gallipoli.
www.anzacdayturkey.biz   (371 words)

  
 ANZAC Day
ANZAC Day, the 25th of April, is a very special day in Australian (and New Zealand) history.
ANZAC stands for the Australia New Zealand Army Corps and the reason that it is so important is that on the 25th of April, 1915 Australia went into battle for the first time as an independent nation.
I have stood at ANZAC Cove in Gallipoli, Turkey, and seen the monuments to that inglorious battle.
warriordoc.com /anzac_day.htm   (982 words)

  
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ANZAC Day was first celebrated with a Dawn Service in 1923, a tradition that has continued to the present day.
ANZAC Day remembers the fallen of all the conflicts in which Australia and New Zealand have participated and the term `ANZAC´ refers to all soldiers of New Zealand and Australia..
www.anzacdaytours.co.uk   (1192 words)

  
 ANZAC Day - Australia
ANZAC - it’s a very strange word, but no matter where they are in the world, to the people of Australia and New Zealand, it represents a legacy of courage under the worst possible circumstances.
ANZAC services are held not only in Australia and New Zealand, but also on the beaches of Gallipoli - in the cove renamed ANZAC Cove, and also in a number of places in France, who remember the Australian soldiers who defended them, and who have honored a large number of them with French medals.
ANZAC Day is the one day of the year in which the unique Aussie game of “Two Up” is legally able to be played outside the Casino.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art30937.asp   (1374 words)

  
 Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot - ANZAC DAY Diggers at Gallipoli, Turkey
By dawn on 20 December, ANZAC had faded into a dim blue line lost amid other hills on the horizon as the ships took their human freight to Imbros, Lemnos and Egypt.
Dawn on that first Anzac Day saw the Diggers jumping from their boats into waist-deep water and scrambling over the narrow, gently-sloping beach of Anzac Cove.
The Anzacs were then in a clearly defined triangle, with its base on the sea and its apex Quinn’s Post on the slopes of the ridge known as Sari Bair, about a thousand yards from the shore.
www.gunplot.net /anzac/anzacday.html   (1682 words)

  
 Trenches on the Web - Special: ANZAC Memories
A private in the AIF was paid five shillings a day with an additional shilling 'deferred', to be paid upon discharge.
Married men were required to allot two shillings a day to dependents; a separation allowance came later, in 1915.
Although they avoided the cataclysm of the first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916, the Australian divisions were very soon drawn in to the four month long campaign.
www.worldwar1.com /sfanzac.htm   (1115 words)

  
 Tanker Brothers - Two Soldiers In The War On Terror
I've been sitting here for days trying to think of a way to describe to you what ANZAC Day is about and I am still at a loss so I will use the words I used in an email the other day and hope that they suffice.
On ANZAC Day Aussies remember and honour ALL those who sacrificed their lives in Service whether it be in times of war or in peacetime service.
ANZAC Day is also a time for us to reflect on the appalling treatment metered out to our returning Vietnam Veterans after the ordeal they endured during their term of service.
mikegulf.blogspot.com /2007/04/anzac-day.html   (1648 words)

  
 Anne's Guiding Pages - ANZAC Day
ANZAC day is strongly linked to the landing of the ANZAC forces at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles in 1915.
ANZAC Day was first celebrated in 1916 with memorial services, commemorating the lives lost in the 8 month period spent by ANZAC forces on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
In New Zealand poppy buttonholes are sold by volunteers on the weekday prior to ANZAC Day which is known as Poppy Day and the proceeds go towards helping veterans, and their families.
www.azmetro.com /nzanzac.html   (936 words)

  
 personal political: anzac day
But as they grow, what I want is that the boys don't grow into the type of men your neighbours seem to be and that my daughter, whatever kind attributes of femininity she chooses to adopt, can recognise a male prat as a male prat, whatever car he drives.
It should be a day to remember the horror of war not glorify it.
It should be a day when politicians affirm their opposition to war and the need to avoid it at all costs.
susoz.typepad.com /personal_political/2006/04/anzac_day.html   (1220 words)

  
 Australian and New Zealand Army Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ANZAC Day is observed annually in memory of those soldiers who died in war.
The ANZAC Mounted Division (originally the Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division) was also formed at this time and contained the three Australian light horse brigades as well as the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade.
"ANZAC" was chosen as the name of a new class of frigates based on the MEKO 200 design, for the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_and_New_Zealand_Army_Corps   (757 words)

  
 CONSTITUTIONAL CENTRE - Caretaker of ANZAC website - ANZAC Day
ANZAC Day services contribute to a deeper understanding of what it means to be Australian, and a deeper faith in ourselves.
On 25 April 1923, the Reverend White led a party of friends in what was the first ever observance of a Dawn parade on ANZAC Day, thus establishing a tradition which has endured, Australia wide ever since.
Reverend White was serving as one of the padres of the earliest ANZACs to leave Australia with the First AIF in November 1914.
www.anzac.dpc.wa.gov.au /index.cfm?event=anzacDay   (688 words)

  
 Hassle Free Travel Agency - ANZAC Day 2007 Tour, Gallipoli Tour, Troy Tour, All Around Turkey Tour
ANZAC Day is, of course, our busiest time and Hassle Free Travel Agency is most active during this period.
John Simpson Kirkpatrick, affectionately known as "the man and his donkey", was born on the 6th of July 1892 in South Shields, England.
He landed at ANZAC Cove at 5 a.m.
www.anzachouse.com   (390 words)

  
 ANzac Day in Australia
That is surely at the heart of the Anzac story, the Australian legend which emerged from the war.
The ANZACs were evacuated and returned to the Middle East and the Western Front where they were involved in other battles.The Gallipoli campaign was an enormous failure, a failure bought at the cost of an enormous number of lives, and the failure led to the resignation of senior politicians in London.
ANZAC is an abbreviation for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
www.gigglepotz.com /ausanzac.htm   (616 words)

  
 ANZAC History Australia - INDEPENDENT ANZAC NETWORK DATABASE - ANZAC Day History
ANZAC History: Team Independent ANZAC Network provides a general information database and Anzac Day Gallipoli tours for all backpacker, traveller and budget traveller to Turkey.
Also provided are: ANZAC Day latest news, links to backpacker sites, guide books, links to hostels in turkey, links to useful Aussie and Kiwi sites, useful info about Turkey, Australia and New Zealand, also links to other sites of backpackers and travellers interest.
Although every effort has been made to insure information on the Independent ANZAC Network Database is as accurate and up-to-date as possible, we accept no responsibility for any event resulting from the use of this information.
www.anzacday.biz /anzac_history/anzac_history.htm   (384 words)

  
 RSA - Remembrance - ANZAC Day Today
ANZAC Day is observed with remembrance services till 1 p.m., followed by a relaxed holiday afternoon.
At this hour, on this day, ANZAC received its baptism of fire and became one of the immortal names in history.
It is also the most traditional of the day’s observances and in some centres the form as changed little since the early ANZAC Day services during and immediately after the First World War.
www.rsa.org.nz /remem/anzac_today.html   (1066 words)

  
 Anzac Day Tours Turkey 2007 Anzac Tours Gallipoli Anzac Day Gallipoli Turkey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Every year thousands of New Zealand and Australian people undertake a pilgrimage to Gallipoli through the Anzac Day Tours available to pay their respects to their ancestors who were there many years ago as well as learn more about the history of this important region.
The Anzac Day Tour is the best way possible to make this trip as they are designed to not only give people a quality tour around the Gallipoli region but also introduce them to Turkey and its culture.
April every year those on an Anzac Day Tour can be part of this important day but experience first hand the sacrifice that was made and the conditions that were faced.
www.anzacdaytours.com /anzacdaytours   (1156 words)

  
 Anzac Day Tours Turkey
The aim that day was to capture the hights of the Sari Bair range and then press inland to Male Tepe to cut off Turkish reinforcements to Cape Helles From the beach, groups of men rushed up streep, scrub covered slopes towards the high ground.
A Turkish officer is led bilindfolded through the Anzac lines to discuss a truce to bury the Turkish dead after the attack of 19 May 1915.
Anzac stool, and still stands, for reckless valour in a good cause, for enterprise resource fulness, fidelity, comradeship, and endurance that will never own defeat.
www.anzacdaytoursturkey.com   (1740 words)

  
 Visit Gallipoli | The Anzacs | Australians in war | World War 1
Anzac Cove is forever associated with the Battle of the Landing, but many troops landed beyond Ari Burnu at North Beach, marked today by the Anzac Commemorative Site.
For the people of modern Turkey, the struggle to retain control of the Gallipoli peninsula and the Straits of the Dardanelles was one of the defining moments in their history.
An Anzac commemorative location has been built at North Beach at Gallipoli in conjunction with the New Zealand government and with the approval of the Turkish government.
www.anzacsite.gov.au   (907 words)

  
 ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland)
ANZAC was the name given to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps soldiers who landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey early on the morning of 25 April 1915 during the First World War (1914-1918).
As a result, one day in the year has involved the whole of Australia in solemn ceremonies of remembrance, gratitude and national pride for all our men and women who have fought and died in all wars.
That day is ANZAC Day -- 25 April.
www.anzacday.org.au   (200 words)

  
 Anzac Day somewhere in the Middle East - smh.com.au
Anzac Day has a special resonance for Christine Bradley this year.
When Bradley was given standard military notice - 14 days - of her deployment to the Middle East, her first reaction was surprise.
Despite the seriousness of war, the Anzac sense of humour is ever present, according to Bradley.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/04/25/1050777394176.html   (464 words)

  
 Anzac Day Tours in Turkey 2007
Within four days the commanders on the spot, Hamilton and Vice-Admiral John de Robeck (who had replaced Carden on 16 March), had shifted the emphasis of the operations from a purely naval to a military orientation, a change in which London eventually acquiesced.
So that the necessary arrangements could be made, the French division, the Royal Naval Division, and the 29th Division were all transported to Egypt, where all but one brigade of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General William Birdwood, were still located.
The ANZAC comprised the 1st Australian Division (Major-General W.T. Bridges) and the composite New Zealand and Australian Division commanded by 1NZEF commander Major-General Sir Alexander Godley, which included the New Zealand Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General F.E. Johnston).
www.anzac-turkey.com /campain.htm   (1077 words)

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