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April 25th 2007 00:20

Australia and New Zealand commemorate the ANZAC Day holiday on 25 April every year to remember members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who landed and fell at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I.

The commemoration begins with a dawn service.

Quick facts.

* ANZAC is an abbreviation for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

* ANZACs were all volunteers

* AIF is an abbreviation for Australian Imperial Force.

* April 25, Anzac Day, was the day the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915.

* The first dawn service on an ANZAC Day was in 1923.

* The ANZACS were on the Gallipoli Peninsula for only 8 months, where around 8,000 of them died.

* There is no town called "Gallipoli". It is the name of an area. Visitors to Gallipoli usually stay at nearby towns - like Ecubeat.

* The date, 25 April, was officially named ANZAC Day in 1916.

* ANZAC Day was not a public holiday in New Zealand until 1921.

* ANZAC Day was not a public holiday in Australia until 1921. However it was not observed uniformly in all the states.

* The Gallipoli Peninsula is very near the famous ancient city of Troy.

Overseas Ceremonies

* In London, a dawn service is held at the Australian War Memorial, and more recently constructed New Zealand War Memorial at Hyde Park Corner.

* In Newfoundland, the Gallipoli offensive is commemorated each year on 25 April by the Royal Newfoundland Regiment who hold a march from Government House through the streets of St. John's ending at the National War Memorial. Members of both the Australian and New Zealand armed forces are invited each year to participate in the march and wreath laying ceremonies.

* In Tonga, Samoa, Cook Islands and Niue, ANZAC Day is also commemorated to honour their soldiers who participated to the campaign.

* ANZAC Day is commemorated in France in the towns of Le Quesnoy and Longueval.

* A small mid-morning tribute to ANZAC Day is commemorated in New York on the roof garden of 620 5th Avenue on the Sunday nearest April 25. The locale is in the British Empire Building in Rockefeller Center and overlooks St. Patrick's Cathedral. It is an annual tradition that has been celebrated at this locale since 1950.

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, And in the morning.
We will remember them.

Lest We Forget.

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