For the information of overseas readers, 25 April 2012 is
Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand, the national day of remembrance. The day is named after a combined military force
of those two countries, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, which
participated in the first major military action of those two countries in 1915
at Gallipoli in Turkey. The Gallipoli
campaign, although a military failure, is considered to be a significant event
in the founding of the Australian nation, spirit and identity. Anzac Day is marked by dawn services,
including one at Gallipoli, by marches in capital cities and towns, and by numerous
remembrance ceremonies. It is the most
sacred secular day in Australia and New Zealand, the nations honouring their
war dead and thanking those surviving, from all wars.
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