Happy ANZAC Day!

[CougarKing]

Just a reminder...it's gonna be ANZAC Day soon- well it's not gonna be here till April 25. My respect goes to all past and current serving members of all ADF services and the New Zealand military services.

http://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/anzac/anzac_tradition.htm

They shall grow not 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.

 

[1feral1]

Our dawn service begins at 0445 at RHQ in jacket and tie.

Followed by a gunfire breakfast on at the LAV stables with mates and family. About at least up to 1000 attending, including family of those deployed.

Then change from our civvies to our uniforms, and end up in the city for the ANZAC march. The entire brigade will be marching. Thousands!

Then back to the regiment for swill at the 41 Club, then disperse to the Gaythorne RSL, then home. Thats my plan. With or without a pickup, ha!

My day begins at 0300, as I have to be at work for 0430.

 

[geo]

Sounds like you have a plan.

Have a good one Wes!

CHIMO!

 

[RangerRay]

I've seen pictures of ANZAC Day ceremonies in Australia and New Zealand, and it puts our Rememberance Day ceremonies to shame.  I believe they also have ceremonies at Gallipoli, and Turkish soldiers participate as well.

 

[geo]

gallipoli is a great victory to the Turks... why wouldn't they participate in their own cermony?

WRT Anzac day.... better weather in April than Rememberance day in November IMHO

 

[Old Sweat]

Geo,

With respect, weather doesn't have squat to do with it.

 

[1feral1]

Well, its here.

Got to work at 0350h, did the tradtitoinal reveille at th shacks with the lads.

The dawn service at 0445 at RHQ, about 450-500 pers in atendance, followed by a gunfire brekky at the stables, some bundy rum and socialisation. Plenty of people, both serving, former mbrs and deployed families.

Changed into polys, wpns isseud, doing a wait out, then hopping a brigade train into the city for the march.

Pics to fol

 

[tomahawk6]

Quote from Ataturk;

"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country, therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Jonnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side. Here in this country of ours... You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our bossom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."

Turkey's Finance Minister, Kemal Unakitan (C), stands with New Zealand's Foreign Minister, Winston Peters (R), and Australia's Defense Minister, Joel Fitzgibbon, during the 93nd anniversary of the World War I campaign of Gallipoli, April 24, 2008 in Gallipoli, Turkey. Some 4,000 Australian and New Zealand soldiers struggled ashore to Gallipoli narrow beach 93 years ago in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign that would claim more than 130,000 lives, at the edge of this remote peninsula in western Turkey.

An Australian soldier sounds a trumpet during the 93nd anniversary of the World War I campaign of Gallipoli, April 24, 2008 in Gallipoli, Turkey. Some 4,000 Australian and New Zealand soldiers struggled ashore to Gallipoli's narrow beach 93 years ago in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign that would claim more than 130,000 lives, at the edge of this remote peninsula in western Turkey.

Australian tourists visit a cemetery at Anzac Cove In Gallipoli, Turkey, Tuesday, April 23, 2008 near where 2721 New Zealand soldiers, 8709 Australians, 33,072 British, 10,000 French and 87,000 Turkish soldiers died during an WWI Allied attack on entrenched Turkish positions in April 1915. The savage battle is marked every year on Anzac Day, April 25th.

Emma Slack-Smith holds a picture of her great grandfather Lieutenant Clarence Lundy MC who fought in the Gallipoli Campaign as she sits in a cemetery where Australian soldiers are buried at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli peninsula, where the Anzac corps landed in 1915, in western Turkey, March 19, 2008. Slack-Smith's great-grandfather Lieutenant Clarence Lundy MC of the 1st Pioneers landed with the Anzac forces on April 25, 1915. Four Australian women represented Australia as peace ambassadors during Turkey�s March 18 Commemorations in Gallipoli. Turkey commemorated their March 18, 1915 naval victory in the Dardanelles, in the same way that Australia observes Anzac Day

 

[geo]

Great words from Attaturk

 

[tomahawk6]

I was browsing through some ANZAC Day photos and was struck by how many kids were taking part.I think thats really neat.

Australian youth visit the Australian military cemetery, during a dawn ceremony to honour World War I Australian war deads and mark the 90th anniversary of a bloody World War I battle, on April 25, 2008 at their Memorial in Villers-Bretonneux, northern France. Some 46,000 Australian servicemen died in the battlefields of northern France during the struggle for control of the Western front, out of the more than 313,000 soldiers sent from Australia to fight in WWI.

This touching photo.