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But as time passed and they inevitably began to drift apart, the ex-soldiers perceived a need for an institutionalised reunion. During the late 1920s, Anzac Day became established as a National Day of Commemoration for the 60,000 Australians and 18,000 New Zealanders who died during the war.
- Dawn services, commemorative marches, remembrance services
- 25 April
- National day of remembrance and first landing of the Anzacs at Gallipoli
- Remembrance Day
- The Dawn Landing
- The First Anzac Day
- Anzac Day on The Oval
- 1960s-1980s: Vietnam Protests and Social Rebellion
- Political Rekindling of The Anzac Spirit
- WWI Centenary and ‘Brandzac’ Day
Anzac Cove after the 1915 landing. Image credit: Imperial War Museum/Wikimedia The first Australians to approach Gallipoli were infantrymen from Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. In the darkness before dawn, they left the battleships behind in the Aegean Sea and rowed toward the shores of ‘Z beach’. Turkish forces opened fire befor...
Australian and New Zealand soldiers marching to Westminster Abbey, London, to commemorate the first Anzac Day, 25 April 1916. Image credit: National Library of Australia On 25 April 1916, small ceremonies were held around the world and throughout Australia to commemorate the Anzacs’ entrance into the war, and the lives of their fallen comrades. The...
ANZAC Day game between Collingwood and Essendon football teams, 25 April 2011.Image credit: Orderinchaos/Wikimedia Commons The Anzac Day footy clash between Essendon and Collingwood is a significant event on the Anzac Day calendar, regularly drawing crowds of over 80,000. However, the idea was not always so popular. All sporting games on Anzac Day ...
On 25 April 1981, Women Against Rape in War march up Anzac Parade towards the Australian War Memorial to lay their wreath at the Stone of Remembrance.Image credit: courtesy ACT Heritage Library (Canberra Times Collection), by Glen McDonald, 25 April 1981, Ref.008856 In the late 1960s, during the Vietnam War, anti-war protesters used Anzac Day event...
Former Prime Minister John Howard (pictured here in Iraq on 25 April 2004) was a strong proponent of Anzac Day commemorations. Image credit: Kate Geraghty/AFP/Getty Images On 25 April 1990, Bob Hawke became the first Australian politician to visit Gallipoli, in what historians see as a major milestone in the recovery of Anzac Day. In the hope of dr...
Woolworths’ ‘Fresh in our memories’ Anzac Day marketing campaign prompted a backlash in 2015, especially on social media. Image credit: @9NewsQueensland/Twitter The Centenary commemorations of WWI gave rise to a number of questionable Anzac marketing campaigns, the most notorious of which was Woolworths’ ‘Fresh in Our Memories’ campaign in 2015. Th...
2 days ago · Later in the 1920s, there were Anzac Day events in Honolulu, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. These were upbeat social gatherings, quite different to the funereal Anzac rituals that emerged later ...
5 days ago · ANZAC Day, in Australia and New Zealand, holiday (April 25) that commemorates the landing in 1915, during World War I, of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( ANZAC) on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The Allies attempted to take control of the strategic Dardanelles from Turkey, allied with the Central Powers, in the so-called Dardanelles ...
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4 days ago · 25 April is ANZAC Day. It is one of the most important dates in the national calendars of Australia and New Zealand. 25 April marks the start of the Gallipoli Campaign 1915. It was the first major action fought by Australia and New Zealand during the First World War. ANZAC Day was first marked in April 1916 on the first anniversary of Gallipoli.
A public holiday. The legal status of Anzac Day was unclear until the early 1920s. Peace was celebrated from 19 to 21 July 1919, but there was no official day of commemoration for the war. The government was prepared to move St George’s Day (usually 23 April) to 25 April and declare it a government holiday, but there was little support for this.
In Australia, some state governments organised events to commemorate the occasion—but the Commonwealth, other than naming the day as Anzac Day, did not. By the late 1920s, Anzac Day was a public holiday in every state and territory. In the 1930s, there was rhetoric about the need to pass the ‘Anzac spirit’ down to the next generation.
