ANZAC day is celebrated on the 25th of April. ANZAC day is celebrated with a dawn service early in the moring ANZAC stands for Australian New Zealand Army Corps. The symbol of the Anzacs is the poppy .
On 25 April 1915, eight months into the First World War, New Zealand and Australian soldiers landed on the shores of the Gallipoli peninsula. This was Turkish territory that formed part of one of Germany's allys, the Ottoman Empire. The troops were there as part of a plan to open the Dardanelles Strait to the Allied fleets, allowing them to scare the Ottoman capital Constantinople and, it was hoped that the Turkish would surrender. The Allied forces encountered expected tough resistance from the Turkish, and both sides suffered enormous loss of lives.
The final death tollfrom dieing in action was 46,000 and another 225,000 died from acciendents or drowning which is very sad. A total of 2721 New Zealanders died.
By John Mclaughlin ☺☻
Great report John Mclaughlin
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