25 April - ANZAC Commemoration Day

[Ken White]

And on mornings like this morning I can never fully understand why I contributed to a mission in finding them all

but someone has to do it -- You're always giving...

Thanks for the link.

Good on yer, Mates...

[davidbfpo]

Just for the record the post-WW2 emigration from the UK to Australia was significant, with over a million leaving; see: http://open2.net/timewatch/2008/tenpoundpoms.html

This item is from the excellent BBC TV series Timewatch: http://www.bbc.co.uk/timewatch , which did a programme in 2003 reviewing the Gallipoli campaign, alas not readily found on the net; it featured the developments between landings with the first proper landing craft and the evacuation.

davidbfpo

[sullygoarmy]

Glad to hear Leavenworth had another great ANZAC ceremony. I played the pipes there last year and it was a very moving event.

[Kiwigrunt]

The somewhat misty seventy-first dawn parade at the Auckland Memorial Museum started the most beautiful Anzac weather I can remember. For the first time an Ozzie flag went up alongside the Kiwi flag and the Ozzie anthem was sung as well. The turnouts have been increasing steadily over the last ten or so years with many kids wearing their granddad’s and great granddad’s medals.

The mist prohibited a Herc from doing a fly-by and appears to have prohibited a Huey from staying in the air. Not a good start for the RNZAF.

[sullygoarmy]

No ANZAC Troops nearby our base in Baghdad but I piped "Flowers of the Forest" in their honor anyhow.

[JMA]

Lest We Forget

Anzac Day


Australian soldier carries his wounded mate in Gallipoli, 1915.

In solidarity from across the ocean.

[Kiwigrunt]

It was 1914 when my country said "Son, there's no time for droving, there's work to be done." so they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun, and they sent me away to the war.

And the band played Waltzing Matilda, as the ship pulled away from the key. Amid all the cheers, the flag waving and tears, we set off for Gallipoli.

Lest We Forget!