Anzac Day

ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

Anzac Day falls on the 25th of April each year. The 25th of April was officially named Anzac Day in 1916.

On the 25th of April 1915, Australian and New Zealand soldiers formed part of the allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula. These became known as Anzacs and the pride they took in that name continues to this day.

The Anzacs landed on Gallipoli and met fierce resistance from the Ottoman Turkish defenders. Their plan to knock Türkiye out of the war quickly became a stalemate and the campaign dragged on for eight months.

At the end of 1915, the allied forces were evacuated. Both sides suffered heavy casualties and endured great hardships. Over 8,000 Australian soldiers were killed.

The meaning of Anzac Day today includes the remembrance of all Australians killed in military operations.

https://www.army.gov.au/about-us/history-and-research/traditions/anzac-day

Updated March 21, 2024
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Anzac & aviator : the remarkable story of Sir Ross Smith and the 1919 England to Australia Air Race
Molkentin, Michael
The story of extraordinary Australian, Ross Smith, who rode to war at Gallipoli on horseback and by the end of the war, was one of the most highly awarded fighter pilots.
Anzac Cove to Afghanistan : the history of the 3rd brigade
Wahlert, Glenn
As the first Anzacs to land at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and among the last to serve in Afghanistan 100 years later, the men and women of the Australian Army's 3rd Brigade have a long and proud history. Initially raised in 1903, the 3rd Brigade served as part of the Australian Imperial Force during...
The ANZAC experience : New Zealand, Australia and Empire in the First World War
Pugsley, Christopher
The gripping story of Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians at war - from the Boer War in South Africa to the cataclysmic struggle of the First World War.
Anzac girls : the extraordinary story of our World War I nurses
Rees, Peter
The harrowing, dramatic and profoundly moving story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War. Now a major six-part television series.
An ANZAC on the Western Front : the personal reflections of an Australian infantryman from 1916 to 1918
Williams, H. R.
This is a graphic account of one soldiers service in the First World War an account that is based on a diary he maintained whilst on active service. It has been described by one senior officer as the best soldiers story I have yet read in Australia. H.R. Williams enlisted in 1915, joining A Company,...
ANZAC sniper
Perry, Roland
The extraordinary story of Stan Savige - from Gallipoli marksman to WWII General and the founder of Legacy 'Stan Savige had been on Gallipoli for just two weeks, in the trenches firing at Turks less than 20 metres away. But Sniper's Ridge was a different proposition. Killing took on...
Anzac treasures : the Gallipoli collection of the Australian War Memorial
Pedersen, P. A.
A beautifully produced, lavishly illustrated commemorative volume drawing on the Memorial's unique collection of Gallipoli-related objects, photographs, artworks, diaries, letters, maps and personal memorabilia.
Après la Guerre : Anzac stories, 1919-1939
Ramsland, John
What really happened to the ex-servicemen in Australia when they returned to civil life? The truth of their stories in peacetime is as shocking as the war they faced. In fact, the line separating the living from the dead was, at times, not clear at all. Many soldiers...
The battlefield of imperishable memory : Passchendaele and the Anzac Legend
Haultain-Gall, Matthew
The Ypres salient â was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minionsâ wrote one returned serviceman after the First World War. Few who fought in the infamous third battle of Ypres â now known as Passchendaele â in 1917 would have disagreed. All five of the Australian Imperial Forceâ s...
A century of ANZACS
Foster, Jason K.
The ANZAC tradition was forged on the killing fields of Gallipoli in 1915 and the legend grew throughout the decades at places such as Tobruk, Singapore, Kokoda and Long Tan. A CENTURY OF ANZACS is a pictorial history of Australia's involvement in more than a hundred years of war, conflict and...
Charles Bean's Gallipoli illustrated
Bradley, Phillip
An incredible first-hand account of Gallipoli from Australia's most well-known war journalist, accompanied by never-before-seen photos of the front.
The Chipilly Six : unsung heroes of the Great War
Jordan, Lucas
On 9 August 1918, on high ground overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German machine gunners. The battle has raged for 30 hours and more than 2000 Englishmen have fallen, for no gain. Meanwhile, two Australian sergeants, Jack Hayes and Harold Andrews, go absent...
The factory : the official history of the Australian Signals Directorate. Volume 1, 1947 to 1972 : incorporating the history of Australian signals intelligence from 1901-1947
Fahey, John
The story of the first 25 years of Australia's national signals intelligence organisation, told for the first time.
Forgotten war
Reynolds, Henry
Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas, but there are no official commemorations of the battles fought on Australian soil between Aborigines and white colonists. Delving into why it is more controversial to talk...
Gallipoli street
O'Connor, Mary-Anne
An Anzac tale of three families whose destinies are entwined by war, tragedy and passion. At 17, Veronica O'Shay is happier running wild on the family farm than behaving in the ladylike manner her mother requires, and she despairs both of her secret passion for her brother's friend Jack Murphy and...
The home front : the never-ending war within our veterans
Lindsay, Patrick
The honest history book
Stephens, David H.
In Australia's rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia's history and identity? The passionate historians of the Honest History group argue that while war has been important to Australia - mostly for its impact on our...
The light between oceans
Stedman, M. L.
The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks is "irresistible...seductive...with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine). After four harrowing years on the Western Front...
Night in Passchendaele
Bennett, Scott
One bloody night. One lone survivor. One chance of redemption. France, 1919. One year after the guns fell silent across the Western Front, Lieutenant Wilfred Rhodes receives his final classified mission before he can return to Australia. He must end the command of Captain Charles Kingsley, the...
The Pacific
Watt, Peter
Two families thrown together by War.When war correspondent Ilsa Stahl's plane goes down in a terrible storm over Papuan waters and she is taken prisoner by the Japanese, Ilsa prepares for the worst.Her father, Jack Kelly, will stop at nothing to save her - even if it means risking the life of his...
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux : why a French town will never forget the Anzacs
FitzSimons, Peter
It's early 1918, and after four brutal years, the fate of the Great War hangs in the balance. On the one hand, the fact that Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia - immediately suing for peace with Germany - means that no fewer than one million of the Kaiser's...
Walking with the Anzacs : an updated guide to Australian battlefields of the Western Front
McLachlan, Mat
Now fully revised for 2023, this is the essential and comprehensive guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front for anyone who wants to walk in the footsteps of the Anzacs. From one of Australia's leading battlefield historians, Mat McLachlan, Walking with the Anzacs...

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