On the 25th April every year Australians and New Zealanders take the time to remember the men, women, and animals who have served in the wars in which Australia was a participant. On that day in 1915 the Anzacs (the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) took part in the attack on the Dardanelles in…
ANZAC day has been and gone for another year. It’s our veteran’s day, named after the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps that during World War I took part in the attack on the Gallipoli Peninsula on the 25th April, 1915. There have been too many wars since then; World War II, the Korean War,…
The Gallipoli exhibition at Wellington’s Te Papa gallery is hands down the best such presentation I have ever seen. Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) troops, along with British, Indian, and French soldiers, landed on beaches along the Dardanelles in Turkey on 25th April, 1915. It was an ill-conceived campaign, badly led. The ANZACs…