Title: ANZAC Day pictures
Description: To honour all Aussie and NZ military
Description: To honour all Aussie and NZ military
MSantor - April 25, 2008 02:01 AM (GMT)
Happy ANZAC Day! This holiday in Australia and New Zealand, which commemorates all the Allied servicemen- especially the members of the Australia-New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC)- who fought and died during the costly Gallipolli campaign of World War One, is celebrated every April 25. May the forefathers of our Australian and New Zealander friends who died there rest in peace. :salute:
Turkey's Finance Minister, Kemal Unakitan ©, stands with New Zealand's Foreign Minister, Winston Peters ®, and Australia's Defense Minister, Joel Fitzgibbon, during the 93nd anniversary of the World War I campaign of Gallipoli, April 24, 2008 in Gallipoli, Turkey. Some 4,000 Australian and New Zealand soldiers struggled ashore to Gallipoli narrow beach 93 years ago in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign that would claim more than 130,000 lives, at the edge of this remote peninsula in western Turkey.
ANZAC Day - The Tradition - Click Here
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Turkey's Finance Minister, Kemal Unakitan ©, stands with New Zealand's Foreign Minister, Winston Peters ®, and Australia's Defense Minister, Joel Fitzgibbon, during the 93nd anniversary of the World War I campaign of Gallipoli, April 24, 2008 in Gallipoli, Turkey. Some 4,000 Australian and New Zealand soldiers struggled ashore to Gallipoli narrow beach 93 years ago in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign that would claim more than 130,000 lives, at the edge of this remote peninsula in western Turkey.
ANZAC Day - The Tradition - Click Here
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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| Quote from Ataturk; "Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country, therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Jonnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side. Here in this country of ours... You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our bossom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well." |
An Australian soldier sounds a trumpet during the 93nd anniversary of the World War I campaign of Gallipoli, April 24, 2008 in Gallipoli, Turkey. Some 4,000 Australian and New Zealand soldiers struggled ashore to Gallipoli's narrow beach 93 years ago in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign that would claim more than 130,000 lives, at the edge of this remote peninsula in western Turkey.
Australian tourists visit a cemetery at Anzac Cove In Gallipoli, Turkey, Tuesday, April 23, 2008 near where 2721 New Zealand soldiers, 8709 Australians, 33,072 British, 10,000 French and 87,000 Turkish soldiers died during an WWI Allied attack on entrenched Turkish positions in April 1915. The savage battle is marked every year on Anzac Day, April 25th.
Emma Slack-Smith holds a picture of her great grandfather Lieutenant Clarence Lundy MC who fought in the Gallipoli Campaign as she sits in a cemetery where Australian soldiers are buried at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli peninsula, where the Anzac corps landed in 1915, in western Turkey, March 19, 2008. Slack-Smith's great-grandfather Lieutenant Clarence Lundy MC of the 1st Pioneers landed with the Anzac forces on April 25, 1915. Four Australian women represented Australia as peace ambassadors during Turkey�s March 18 Commemorations in Gallipoli. Turkey commemorated their March 18, 1915 naval victory in the Dardanelles, in the same way that Australia observes Anzac Day