ANZAC Day 2025

2025 marks the 110th anniversary of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corp landing at dawn on the beaches of Gallipoli, Turkey - the 25th of April 1915.

Dawn Service ANZAC Park, Nelson, New Zealand

Cenotaph -World War 2 face

Cenotaph - Sentinels and Harvey Ruru (Leader of the karakia)

Cenotaph-Sentinels and Maj. Gen. Tim Gall (Rtd) NZDF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-nH0qzxPmY

Moment of Rememberance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md0FLbjEYdY

They sall not grow old... - The Last Post

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.

We will remember them.

Pipe Band - about to lead the veterans

Pipe band and veterans

MARDEN VALLEY COMMEMORATION CEREMONY 10am, MArsden Valley, Stoke, Nelson, New Zealand.

Nelson Returned and Services Association - Lawn Cemetary

Nelson Army Cadets laying poppies

Nelson and Navy Cadets laying poppies

Nelson Air Cadets

Commemoration Service

Commemoration Service

Veterans

The last post - Sergeant Maso Robinso, RNZAF

Grave of Ken and Aubrey Lumsden

The poem In Flanders Fields and the poppy used as an icon for Remembrance Day in Commonwealth countries and also ANZAC day.

Events in the Great War drew the old Ottoman Empire in on the side of Germany. The British thought that invading could take the Ottoman Empire out of the war, relieving pressure on the Russians and shortening the war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiysBodQYgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aWmqyawu2k