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May 8, 2018 · 8 Christopher Pugsley, ‘Stories of Anzac’, in Gallipoli: Making History, ed. Jenny Macleod (London: Frank Cass, 2004), 44–58. 9 Hilda Kean, ‘Animals and War Memorials: Different Approaches to Commemorating the Human-Animal Relationship’, in Animals and War: Studies of Europe and North America , ed. Ryan Hediger (Leiden: Brill, 2013 ...
- Burcu Cevik-Compiegne
- 2018
Kemal Ataturk commanded the Turkish forces at Gallipoli and later became the founder and first president of modern Turkey. This memorial honours him, as well as the heroism and sacrifice of both the Anzac and Turkish troops who took part in the bitterly fought campaign.
Westminster Abbey has been closely associated with ANZAC Day commemorations from the very beginning. On 25th April 1916, around 2,000 Australian and New Zealand soldiers marched through the streets of London to the Abbey where a special service was held in the presence of King George V and Queen Mary to mark the first anniversary of the ...
On the Ataturk Memorial that was inaugurated in February this year in Hyde Park in the city centre of Sydney, Australia, where the Anzac Memorial is located, the words which have “Ataturk 1934” written below them have been engraved in English and Turkish as two columns alongside each other.
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- Remembering and Forgetting International Law and The Great War
- Law’s Memory
- Law’s Materialisation at A War Memorial
- Instituting International Legal Order Through Memorialisation
- Collective Memory in Lawful Revolt
- Commemoration Through The Resurrection of War
Birth, Casino Palace Hotel Gardens, Port Said, Egypt, 23 November 1932
Former wartime Prime Minister Billy Hughes, on his way from a meeting of the League of Nations back home through the Suez Canal, spoke directly to the Australian nation via a newly-laid radio cable through the Canal. Before him stood a figuration of triumphant combat: two horsemen preparing for battle, dismounting and driving forward with their bayonets. Australian and New Zealand brothers-in-arms, they embodied the victories of the mounted desert campaigns in Egypt, Syria and Palestine betwe...
Death, Casino Palace Hotel Gardens, Port Said, Egypt, 24 December 1956
In early November 1956, British forces occupied Port Said after a prolonged aerial bombardment at the climax of the Suez Crisis (‘Operation Musketeer’). They took over the Casino Palace Hotel turning it into the Operation’s headquarters. Much of the city was destroyed and its infrastructure disabled by the invading army. In the absence of Egyptian armed forces, the city was defended by an underground resistance only able to communicate to Nasser’s government in Cairo through a hidden wireless...
Resurrection I, Mount St Clarence, Albany, Western Australia, 31 October 1964
Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia:
‘The end of the First World War is almost unanimously considered by historians of international law as constituting the end of an epoch … with the end of the First World War, the “classical” system … gave way to a “new” law of nations … “modern international law”’.11 This periodisation of international law—with the Great War acting as a hinge—align...
Collective memory has been defined as ‘knowledge about the past that is shared, mutually acknowledged, and reinforced by collectivities such as small informal groups, formal organizations, or nation states and global communities’.28 This definition is clearly indebted to the Durkheimian insight that ‘the categories from which we see the world are t...
International law repeatedly restates its novelty, promising renewal in the face of catastrophe. Most ‘places’ where scholars have seen this restatement and renewal performed are in documents, in treaties, in textbooks and in academic journals. In my account of the ANZAC Memorial, I acknowledge that we could also ‘see’ this artefact ‘materialise’ i...
Let us return to Billy Hughes standing Canalside at Port Said in November 1932. In his panegyric, the victors of the Great War are valorised and their sacrifice interpreted as a sacrifice for all mankind. The war becomes truly great. Here we see, paradoxically perhaps, nationalism in the service of the international community.45In Hughes’s renderin...
Return now to December 1956 and the apparent death of the ANZAC Memorial. Occupying a space immediately vacated by departing British and French troops, the memorial stood on legal property of the Suez Canal Company. Records do not say whether remembrance services were held by Anglo-French forces to mark Armistice Day (11 November) but their period ...
I return now to Albany, and then Canberra, in a time marked by Australia’s contribution to the Vietnam War. Here, I translate the commemorative speeches of political leaders as evocations relating Australia to the world and thereby constituting an imagination of international community and its attendant laws and memories. What is so striking is the...
- Charlotte Peevers
- 2017
Apr 28, 2016 · Today I’m focusing on the ANZAC conflict from the other side; in this case the famous ANZAC Memorial penned by M. Kemal Atatürk in 1934. Kemal Atatürk, or Mustapha Kemal as he was then known, was the officer in command of the Turkish troops that successfully opposed the ANZAC troops that spearheaded the British attempt to take the Dardanelles.
Oct 31, 2023 · Anzac Parade memorial: Kemal Atatürk ; Anzac Day traditions, facts and folklore: words of remembrance
