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The Turks hold dawn services at Gallipoli every year. Our countries are forever linked. True respect for each other.
All 3 country do kiwi at chunuk bair and Aussies at lone pine and the Turks somewhere else with everyone helping to hold the dawn service and we all go to each other services as well
@Evan hART Since us kiwi's & American's didn't get on so well when American troops landed in New Zealand in WW2 and there was many full on fights between our troops as we felt you guy's were to disrespectful why in our country. Look up the battle-of-manners-street
@@Ricky-nq7lu a similar thing happened in Australia called “the battle of Brisbane”
@@Ricky-nq7lu same in Oz most was minor . The battle of Brisbane was 1 of the largest.
You guys should watch the movie about the conflict. It stars Mel Gibson and it's called Gallipoli. It's a very moving film, it was released in 1981.
my family lived in France when i was younger and we attended the ANZAC day dawn service at villers bretonneux and it was an amazing experience to stand where my family members fought. Being at the battle fields at dawn is a moving experience, we were able to find our family members names on the shrine of remembrance there.
Yesterday I attended my local ANZAC service and even though it was pouring rain it was very well attended.
Anzac Day is arguably the most important day of the year. Dawn services are held all over the country as a sign of respect and are all very well attended
My grandfather fought at Gallipoli at the age of 17. Then went on to fight in France. Sent home after being wounded for the third time.
He never spoke about it and it is very hard for me to comprehend, because to me he was only ever my gentle, softly spoken, dearest Poppa❤️
It really is hard for many as it comes around each year. I to had a family member who fought at Gallipolli but didn't make it back home. The ANZACS were and are incredible people, I and fellow Australians owe them.
No not ARGUABLY, IS!
@@chrisalldis3375 My thoughts exactly 👍
My grandfather fought there too; He was about the same age. He was badly wounded and nearly lost an arm, but a brilliant surgeon in London saved his arm which he had a metal plate in.
ANZAC biscuits travelled well because there are no eggs in them..so could be sent across the world. The dawn service at the Shrine of Remberence in Melbourne was attended by 50,000 people yesterday. There are hundreds of dawn services..held in suburbs and towns across the country, attended by veterans, current serving members, families. It's really a moving thing to attend.
Quite a few Australian & New Zealanders travel to Gallipoli, Turkey with the Turks to commemorate and be at the dawn service, all our cities and towns have a dawn service, and our major cities have an ANZAC parade, during the pandemic due to isolation a lot of people actually stood outside their house on the street with alit candle dawn service.
A fun fact on ANZAC is the only day allowed and legal to play "Two Up" a gambling game played by the WW1 soldiers.
10,000 killed out of an Australian population of 5,000,000 at the time was a shocking loss of life (any loss of life in war is shocking really). Don't forget these brave Aussies and Kiwis were all volunteers.
The Poppy: the red represents the blood of all those who gave their lives, the black represents the mourning of those who didn't have their loved ones return home, and the green leaf represents the grass and crops growing and future prosperity after the war destroyed so much. The leaf should be positioned at 11 o'clock to represent the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the time that World War One formally ended.
Lest we forget.
Also the poppy grew in profusion in Belgium and Northern France where trench warfare took place
Lest we forget
The most tragic thing is that Aus. lost 60,000 from a population of 5 million and New Zealand lost 12,000 from a pop. of 2 million.
@@juliebird5307 the NZ numbers are WW2
in WW1 it was 16,000 and a pop. of 1 million
we lost 2 million soldiers
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During covid lockdown candles were distributed to every household in my suburb because the local dawn services were cancelled. That morning it was wonderful to see everyone standing in their driveways at dawn holding a candle. There were loudspeakers broadcasting the service from the war memorial in Canberra
In little country towns we also did driveway services also displayed items at the driveway
The playing of The Last Post at dawn service still sends chills down my spine and tears to my eyes, reflecting on those fellow Australians who sacrificed for us today.
The casualties suffered at Gallipoli were shocking to Australia, especially as we were a young nation with a small population. However, the following year at Fromelles in a 24 hour battle Australia suffered over 5,000 casualties of which 2,000 were killed. It's described by historians as the single worst day in Australian history.
During the pandemic we couldn’t all gather for the ANZAC Day dawn service so a lot of us stood out the front of our houses on the driveway with candles at dawn and played the last post. It was a beautiful moment to be apart of as we remembered our fallen soldiers.
One thing that the video didn’t make clear, is that there is a Dawn Service held at Gallipoli, in Turkey, every year and it is always well attended by Australians and New Zealanders, despite the distance from home. I managed to go in 1995, the 80th anniversary, along with 10,000 others. (Obviously Covid caused a few problems the last couple of years, but I imagine, as of next year, the numbers will go back up.) In the 60’s and 70’s when the Vietnam War was being fought, attendances at Anzac Day were well down. It was only after a 1981 movie called ‘Gallipoli’ was released, that interest in Anzac Day was increased again. (‘Gallipoli’, directed by Peter Weir and starring a very young Mel Gibson, was a surprisingly funny, but ultimately sad account of the doomed Gallipoli campaign.) One of the reasons it still resonates with Australians and New Zealanders today is that it was the first time that the two countries fought under their own banner and not as ‘British’ forces. For we Aussies, it was like the birth of the Australian spirit and identity…as mentioned in the video. I hope you get to see this movie one day. It really does capture, for me, a lot that is behind the character and the humour of Australians and our Kiwi cousins. ( FYI, my paternal great uncle landed at Gallipoli on April 25th, 1915, survived being shot 3 weeks later and was returned there after being in hospital on an island nearby. He was evacuated at the end of the campaign and after a short stint in Egypt, was sent to the Somme in France….which was worse. My maternal grandfather was also on the Somme. My father and uncle also spent 5 years in New Guinea in WW 2 as young men. Thankfully, all 4 of my family members returned.)
“ 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 Johnnies 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 faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.”
Quote attributed to Mustafa Kamal Ataturk
That quote makes me cry every time
The way we see it, they were Aussies. We love them, we respect them, we appreciate their sacrifice, we honour them, and we remember them. They gave their lives for us and many others to live free and be safe. It is irrelevant how long it has been. I honestly think in 1000 years, they will still remember them, honour them, and cry for them. They were our fellow Aussies. No matter how long ago they lived.
auusies are aussies time dosnt erase that
Ozzy bloke well said
And New Zealanders
Arnt you forgetting someone ANZAC
They were Kiwis too.
ANZAC Day during Covid lockdown in 2020 was so special also. We were all in lockdown and so many of us still woke up at dawn and stood at the end of our driveways to pay respect. Some suburbs had young musicians playing the last post for everyone to hear. ❤️
ty for mentioning this i was hoping someone would
From the Commander of the Turkish troopsi at Gallipoli and future President of Turkey
""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 Johnnies 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 bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."[1]
Wow, thank you!
Australia has:
5 major cities (each over 1,000,000),
14 other cities (each between 100,000 & 1,000,000),
375 towns/cities (each between 10,000 & 100,000) approx.
1306 small towns (each under 10,000) approx.
And it is worth noting that in virtually each of these towns & cities:
- there is a monument in the form of a cenotaph, either constructed in 1915 or soon thereafter, and
- there is an ANZAC Day dawn service, which is followed by a march through the city or town.
- ANZAC Day is also a public holiday throughout Australia & New Zealand
- ANZAC Day is also celebrated throughout the world wherever Australians & New Zealanders reside
- special ANZAC Day celebrations are also held, such as on the Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) and at Villers-Bretonneux (France)
Wow! Great comment✌🏼
in new zealand on anzac day everything is shut until noon and then shops, pubs and businesses can reopen after then
The modern recipe for Anzac biscuits is not the same rock hard dry biscuit, called a "tack biscuit", the troops had to eat in World War 1, but they are similar to what was sent from home in packages from families back in the period. They're very much considered a patriotic snack here. To prevent commercial exploitation the term "Anzac" has been protected under Australian law since 1920 and that protection also applies to "Anzac biscuit" (it is not allowed to be called a cookie). To be legally called an Anzac biscuit it can't deviate substantially from the recipe published on the Federal Department of Veterans Affairs website. Breaching the law protecting the term "Anzac" is a Federal criminal offence punishable by up to 12 months imprisonment.
"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."
This is a section of a poem (for the fallen) commonly quoted at a dawn service along with the saying ("Lest we forget"). Maybe you two could watch it virtually next year?
A Dawn Service at Gallipoli is heart-rendingly sad and prideful at the same time. I lost a great-uncle in the Lone Pine attack, and had other family members survive and go on to France and Palestine. Visiting these places can make you so emotional.
In the 1980s Turkey officially renamed the place the Anzacs landed as Anzac Cove while Australia renamed the channel leading out of the Princess Royal Harbour (where the Australian troops ships left Australia) to Atatürk Channel. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the commander opposing the Anzacs at Gallipoli and was later the first President of Turkey. He is the only enemy commander to have a memorial on Anzac Parade, Canberra (Australia's capital city) and it is opposite the Australian War Memorial.
The impact of ANZAC day is shown in almost every town. You will see a memorial in a prominent place in the town with heaps of names of those who died on the plate. Smaller towns of 500 may have lost up to 30 men who volunteered.
Dawn services are heart ranching, I cry everytime I hear "The Last Post". Even during lockdowns, our dawn services went on, they broadcast them over the radio, and everyone stood out front of their houses. People were playing The Last post on whatever instruments they had. There are plenty of clips on CZcams & Tik Tok. You should watch a dawn service, the one in Gallipoli is hugh, so they had to limit numbers it's so popular.
We have attended Anzac Day Dawn Service since our kids were very young. I love the respect they show for our past & present servicemen & women. They know our family history & those members who fought. The Dawn Service is reverent & humbling.
My grandfather, for one, was a mechanic & light horseman in WW2. My son has always wanted to work with cars since understanding what his great grandfather did. He’s realising that dream, just starting his apprenticeship in heavy diesel mechanics. It’s funny where connections lead you.
As a family we enjoyed the service this year after Covid, our numbers have grown to include partners & friends (was rather hectic cooking a big breakfast for them all afterwards though😆). I love that this generation continue such an important tradition
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Lest we forget
An often played song on Anzac Day is The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by Eric Bogle. It tells of the horrors of war. A heart breaking song so have the tissues ready if you have a listen.
Miles says he never cries well I’m throwing down the challenge 😝
Yes, always listen it around ANZAC Day. No shame in a grown man weeping.
The campaign at Gallipoli was a strategic disaster. The soldiers landed on beaches and were mown down. Australian soldiers and Australian citizens thought they were doing something very special for the War but it was nothing short of a bloodbath. The devastation it caused to Australia as a newly born Federation was profound. There isn’t a town in Australia that does not have a memorial to the Great War. Every place was affected by the deaths of so many men. You might like to watch 2 movies … Gallipoli with Mel Gibson. The final scene of that movie still haunts me - extremely powerful visual. The other film is the Water Diviner with Russell Crowe. It features a view of the war from Turkey’s perspective and the view of a father trying to find his dead sons. The other rather unique feature to this War was the respect paid to ANZACS by the Turks and their president Ataturk who spoke to the mothers of the fallen, saying that their sons were now sons of Turkey. Quite extraordinary. BTW, many of the surviving ANZACS went on to fight in France and are also honoured by the towns saved or liberated by Australians. My grandfather was an ANZAC. He lost his leg in the fighting in France and was one of the lucky ones to return home.
I've seen a few reactions to this video, but I don't think it explains ANZACs very well. Anzac day is more than remembering the soldiers of Gallipoli (though that is part of it for sure), but it is also how that battle, the attitudes and behaviours of the soldiers, the poor management by the British, etc has all shaped Australian culture since then.
I would 100% recommend watching ANY Aussie made Gallipoli movie or TV mini-series to get a better idea.
Oft overlooked, in this context (in remembrance of Anzac and Turkish sacrifice), is that British (inc. Canadians, Irish, and Indian troops) and French forces were also involved in the Gallipoli campaign. What I find so lovely about these remembrance services, is that folk from all of these nations get involved, in order to remember their brave kin. All remember.
the biscuit was because it was longer lasting than bread so was able to be carried as food during fighting periods.
I'm happy that Australia is what it is, it could have been so many other things if not for Our ANZAC'S.
Oh yes, we were in extreme danger in WWI. German missionaries in New Guinea were on the way here to kill us all. I we hadn't have sent troops off to the Mediterranean who know what could have happened. WWII was different, but there was no ANZAC core then.
our ANZACS SAYS IT ALL... THANKS MATE
MISTAKE THANKS DIGGER
A couple of notes
Because of the ingredients, Anzac biscuits travel well- they lack eggs or milk
The evacuation of Gallipoli was considered the most successful part of the campaign...
Every day at 16:42 AEST, the Australian War Memorial holds the Last Post Ceremony. The ceremony begins with the Australian national anthem followed by the piper's lament. Visitors are invited to lay wreaths and floral tributes beside the Pool of Reflection. An individual's story is told, and the Ode is recited by Australian Defence Force personnel. The ceremony ends with the sounding of the Last Post. They also stream the ceremony daily. You can see these ceremonies on their channel. czcams.com/users/AWMLastPostfeatured
During COVID. a lot of Anzac services were cancelled, so a "Driveway Dawn Service" was created, where people stood in vigil in their drives, listening to the radio or watching a commemorative service on their phones. It was so popular that it has looks to be a thing that will continue post-pandemic. I really think that says something about Australians, that we will take the time to get up at the crack of dawn, just to go stand outside on the street. But we do it because we want to commemorate the day and our fallen, because it is important. To me, that's awesome.
Some Australians will also travel to Gallipoli itself, to partake in the Dawn Service at Anzac Cove, the very spot where the landings happened. Dawn services are also held around the world in other places where Australians have fought. One of the largest is at Villiers-Brittoneux in France, a town that the Australians re-captured in a dawn raid on the 25th April 1916, exactly one day after the Gallipoli landings, on the first Anzac day.
Perhaps the reason that Americans forget about WWI is because they were barely in it. The war started in 1914, but it wasn't until 1917, just a year before the war ended, that the US became involved. Not trying to be mean, just pointing out that the history is very different. Also, because Australia only became a country in 1901, this was the first major conflict their army had participated in
Thank you for handling this video with respect, compassion and maturity. I've only been following you for a week now, but this solidified my appreciation of the channel. You're not just hunting for Australian views, it seems, you genuinely have an interest in our nation and history.
Thanks, fellas. Get a dog up ya.
that dawn service shown is the one at gallipoli, when the countries are not fighting they allow aussies there to pay their respects.
If you want to see WW1 in colour, Peter Jackson ( of LOTR fame) restored a whole heap of footage ( and included sound) of movies. It’s called “they shall not grow old”.
Last year with covid and we could not gather. Many Australians gathered outside their homes at dawn with their radios on and listened to the dawn service. To look up and down our street to see our neighbours standing there for the dawn service was an amazing thing. To all our service men and woman we honour you. 🎖
That is so beautiful Jenny. In my set of units for Aboriginal Elders, we too got up early during Covid and stood at on our verandahs and listened to the services and the last post. We each held a photograph of our family who gave service to our country and remembered them and all who gave and served. Lest We Forget.
We did that this year as well
@@charki40 We thank them for their sacrifice. Lest we Forget.
Thanks for doing this🙏. Appreciate the respect to the subject. And Phez don't apologize for sharing your families stories. Always good to hear how you relate.🙂
You mentioned world war 2 and Pearl Harbor. Which we definitely learned about (and I've been there to the memorial when I visited Hawaii). What you probably don't know about (and many Australians' didn't know much about for decades) is that Australia had its own Pearl Harbour, Darwin was bombed by the Japanese is an air raid on the 19th February, 1942 by the same Japanese commander and pilots that bombed Pearl Harbour. More bombs were dropped on Darwin than even Pearl Harbour. A few hundred died in the first attacks and 1700 casualities in subsequent attacks over the next 20 months, not just Darwin but also Sydney harbour, Townsville in Qld etc.
There's would've been more civilian casualties in the first air attacks had they not evacuated much of Darwins civilian population a couple months earlier. (As a precaution to an attack).
This year marked the 80th anniversary of the attacks. I saw an interview with a 101 yr old survivor/veteran who attended the memorial in Darwin.
I'll throw a couple of videos in the discord on this subject. If you feel like checking any of them out some time. Even if not for a reaction, you might just be interested in it for yourself.
My great grandfather was in Gallipoli, one of the lucky ones that was able to return home. Shot in the groin area and received shrapnel to the face. Was a member of the light horsemen.
Mine was there too; shot in the arm which a surgeon in London managed to save after multiple operations.
The major australian war memorials tend to have a tomb of the unknown soldier, also now with DNA testing we don’t add soldiers and many have also been identified from older conflicts. During Covid lockdowns a link was sent out to a live video of the dawn service and everybody stood at the end of our driveways with candles and listened it was really amazing when the sound of the bugle came through on the video and you realised everyone in your town was “at the service”
ANZAC day commemorates all those who have served since ww1 as well. Australia was a very young nation so the Gallipoli campaign in WW1 forms a major part of Australian national identity
And before WW1
Australia was a young nation of only 14 years old when the ANZACs landed at Galipoli. To lose 10,000 young men in 8 months was a disaster for a country with only 4 million people. These men were the cream of Australia's youth.
My grandmother, Mary Sullivan, was born in 1896 and had six younger sisters. She was married at 18 to a man who was unable to join up due to his important civilian job. All six sisters died as spinsters, and probably virgins (given the moral standards of the day)
They all lived past 70. I remember my sad, great-aunts, who loved me so as a boy, and their life-long sacrifice and grief.
It's an important day for Australia and N.Z. because we were so young as countries and it was our best and brightest who were the first to go.
60000 died all up in WW1.
5000+ at the Dawn Service yesterday at Cronulla, Sydney fellas! Nice service, with plenty of children (
Both my Grandfathers fought for Britian in the trenches of WW1 at Ypes, my Dads father was killed, my Mum's returned but suffered ill health due to the gassing. Now in Australia all branches of service and different wars march. They then play two up, drink and yarn. During Covid restrictions people stood in their driveways and played the service on radios and phones.
theres something special with the dawn services, they are so emotional.
At the going down of the Sun and in the morning We Will Remember Them! 😭🫡
Anzac Day is our official day of mourning for the fallen.the name is from Australian and New Zealand Army Corp initials The legend was born on 25th April 1915 and due to incorrect information these troops were sent into a heavily defended Turkish post called Gallipoli ,and a blood bath ensued as they were seconded to British officers who treated them as expendable despite protests from Aussie leaders Churchill was British Minister for War at the time of this horrible error. Aussie population was 5 million our losses in WW1 were over 60,000 , in WW2 only 30.000 population about 7 million Neither was our war
I would say we were very much a part of WW2 with Japan's attack on our nation. They did manage to bomb Darwin.
The Dawn service here in Melbourne yesterday morning the first at the Shrine of remembrance 5 or 6 am since covid, there were 50,000 thousand people attended. Also there Australian and other countries who lost family family in 9/11
Love to see you learning more about australia 🇦🇺
Here in Melbourne, Australia...I attended the Anzac Day dawn service along with at least 50,000 other people, followed by more than 86,000 for an Anzac football match at the MCG. It was a fantastic yet tiring day.
Even during the past 2 years of the various Covid lockdowns and restrictions of gathering in numbers we commemorated Anzac Day and the Dawn Service ... I (with many of my neighbours) left our homes and stood at the end of our drive ways (with candles or a torch) and listened to the ABC Telecast of the Dawn Service with our mobile phones! The dawn service is started at 04.28am as this was the time when the first of the Anzacs landed at Gallipoli.
Australia's population was really really small during WW1. 38% of all men of fighting age,18 to 44, enlisted and travelled to Europe to fight for "Mother England" So every community across the country lost young men in the war.
Throughout our cites and suburbs and in almost every small town there is a war memorial with the names of the those that served with a cross alongside the names of those that never returned. And then they had many more names added after WW2. This is where the dawn services are held every Anzac Day across Australia.
It’s a time to remember those from WWW1, but we also celebrate/remember those who went to any other proceeding war/conflict. They do a parade/March of all soldiers serving or retired and family members representing those that have passed. Just like the old pictures you saw.
Thanks, guys, your respect is appreciated. This video was very simplistic because it was made for school kids, I'm sure there are better ones out there. There are marches in nearly every town or city in Oz as well as memorials in London, New York, Washington, and at quite a few military bases across the US as well in fact.
ANZAC biscuits lasted a long time without going bad so troops had them in their packs. I've got my great-grandfather's diary from WWI and he writes that he "had a few ANZACS from home".
To give you a idea how seriously the public takes this
In lock down last 2 yrs where no Anzac march so public across Australia got up at dawn and stood in their driveways in remembrance of the diggers media drove through streets filming it
Almost all towns and villages (even out in the bush) have a War Memorial, with the names of the locals who went to war, and did not return. Unlike other countries who commemorate great victories.... in Australia and New Zealand, we commemorate a massive defeat.
"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 Johnnies 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 bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well." Kemal Ataturk. Peace out.
I can never read this without tears. What a wonderfully gracious gesture from Turkey.
My grandfather fought at Leane's trench and survived. sort of. He very rarely spoke of what he went through, but what little I did learn chills me to the bone. He was never a whole man, the terrors of what he went though in many ways broke him. He was one of the lucky ones that came home.
We have a museum in Canberra called the war memorial which shows all of Australia’s contributions to every conflict, such a experience to have a look and also has the last surviving World War One German tank in existence there because some aussie troops got bored and decided to steal it one day in no mans land
Unfortunately they are doing renovations to it which a lot of people feel will ruin it.
I’ve always lived in Canberra and the memorial is the main place I keep going back to
I found the change of the Guard at The Tomb of the unknown soldier very different to that of an Anzac day Dawn service, The dawn service is much more like a church service/funeral where the audience participates by reciting 'we will remember them' etc at the appropriate times, the changing of the guard was more something you just watch in silence.
Anzac Day is a tearful day of Remembrance within Australia and our cuzin's from New Zealand that band together for Dawn Service. The day then turns into what we call two-up and many stories over several beers...
You can imagine how impressed Australia & New Zealand were, finding out that 'British' war planners managed to land our troops on the wrong beachhead .. a place where they were effectively trapped!
After 8 months of fighting in atrocious conditions, the decision was made to withdraw and a 3-stage plan was devised by an 'Australian' Lieutenant Colonel .. Charles Brudenell White.
British Generals estimated that around half of the 80,000 to be evacuated would be lost, however, it was carried out in such a manner that there were only around half a dozen casualties and the final 10,000 troops in stage 3, were removed so effectively, that there wasn't a single casualty.
So .. the moral of the story is .. if a 'friend' has gotten you into a life threatening shit-show and you need to get the hell out ... get an aussie to arrange it!!🙂
I am Turkish . I visited here. emotional place. I also put flowers for the Anzac soldiers. a sunny and safe place for those wondering
This year 50,000 attended the dawn service in Melbourne and that was just one service. They still hold services at Gallipoli and across France.
Thank you for your reactions. From my point of view Anzac Day is the most important day. Its not a celebration but a day of deep reflection. Its Sad. A day when the hardest of men openly shed a tear. Im old enough to to have heard stories of great sacrifice from ww1 and WW2 survivers. Traditionally a family member never tells you what they did. you seek out information best place on Anzac Day at an RSL club.(Returned Service League, Now EX services). My Great Grandmother lost three sons, 2 Gallipoli, 1 Flanders Field France. My other Grandfather wounded Belgium. My Father served WW2 Egypt and New Guinea. He Organized Anzac day for many years at our local RSL. A very personal pain shared by a whole country.
"Lest we forget" Respect 🇦🇺🇳🇿
To really understand ANZAC Day you need to check out a mini series called "ANZACS" or maybe the film "Gallipoli". The video you watched is for children in primary school. Also there is the song - "And the band played Waltzing Mathilda" by Eric Bogle
Hey guys, if you're interested in more WW1 stuff. I'd recommend having a look at the movie "Galipoli" with Mel Gibson. Gives a good idea about the ordeals they went through.
Also, a couple years ago Peter Jackson (yes, that one) released a movie/documentary called "They Shall Not Grow Old", which is basically just footage from WW1, which has been restored, coloured, and had sound added. There's also a behind the scenes of how they did all of that VFX and SFX work.
Thanks Guys, yes Anzac Day is sacred here, but it also commemorates all wars Australia has been involved in
New Zealand does exactly the same thing,Dawn service,and a later service usually 11am,marching in the streets of all cities and small towns on the 25th of April every year,we also remember our boys and girls in following wars.
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Hey guys ,
These biscuits were made and sent in whst you guys,would call care packages 📦, here is my recipe for our delicious ANZAC Biscuits - all these measurements are METRIC .
1 cup Plain Flour
1 cup Rolled Oats
3/4 cup Desiccated Coconut
3/4 cup Sugar
140gr Butter
3 teaspoons Golden Syrup
3 Tablespoons Boiling water
1 teaspoon Bicarb of Soda
A sprinkle of either cinnamon ,nutmeg or mixed spice .
1 Preheat your oven to 150 Degrees Celsius
2.Sift your flour into a bowl
3. Add your rolled oats, sugar, and Desiccated Coconut
4 . Melt your butter in a smaller deep pan on the stove , add the golden syrup & boiling water
5. Take the pan off the heat & add the Bicarbonate Soda , it will foam up ok, pour it immediately into the dry ingredients
6. Mix well with a wooden spoon, put baking paper ( parchment paper) on a tray , roll the mixture into small balls and place on your tray( give space between as they spread in the oven)
7. Bake in a slow 🐌 150 Degrees Celsius oven for approx. 15 - 20 minutes or until golden , watch them as they burn easily.
8. After baking leave on tray for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire cooling rack . Have with your favourite hot drink as a mid morning or mid afternoon snack 😋 delicious at any time of the year. My amazing Dad fought against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea in WW2 in the Royal Australian Air Force and was mentioned in dispatches. So ANZAC DAY - 25 APRIL- Dawn Service & 11 AM usually there are MILITARY parades in many Australian and New Zealand cities . Then we have REMEMBRANCE DAY - 11 NOVEMBER we have 2 minutes silence and REMEMBRANCE Services around AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 & NEW ZEALAND 🇳🇿 to remember those who gave their lives for our FREEDOM.
In the Covid pandemic time, the ANZAC marches and dawn services were cancelled when we were in lockdown. But we Aussies still came up with a way to commemorate this important day. We woke up and walked to the end of our driveways at dawn, with candles or lights, played recordings of the last post, recited the Ode of Remembrance, and wore our past heroes medals with the same pride as always. Thousands of people did this around Australia. The ode of remembrance is:
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.
Lest we forget.
This is recited every day at the War Memorial in Canberra. That is the building first shown in the video. If you ever get a chance to see it there it’s just before they close for the day. It’s very moving.
Also, we have entertainment clubs here called RSL’s. Returned Services Leagues clubs. At 6pm every day they ask people to stand and the Ode of remembrance is recited. Every day.
I might have missed it (and I've seen the original video a few times) but I feel like it skips over one key aspect of why we commemorate specifically for Gallipoli instead of any other battle in ww1, and there were worst battles for us than this campaign, such as Fromelles in France.
The landing of Gallipoli wasn't just the first battle that the ANZACs were part of, it was the first time Australians and New Zealanders fought in a war as citizens of their countries and not just part of the British Empire (such as the Boar War).
We gained independence peacefully, so I think a fair comparison of culture significance is to the war of independence. In both situations, citizens for and died for their country for the first time.
But also, it's such a recent event that it is our grandparents or great grandparents who fought, people that some of us knew personally (I'm too young myself), rather than some random people from like 18th century in books, many of us are deeply connected to this.
But yeah, it's a commemoration for all soldiers in Australia and New Zealand, even veterans from ongoing war. We just focus on the ww1 aspect a lot because of the significance.
Growing up as child with a parent in the army who's also a descendent of an ANZAC, I've been to many many dawn services over the years, it's something truly special I can't put into words. Just when The Last Post plays just as the sun rises, it's just something you need to experience to feel the emotions really, and I'm truly grateful to Turkey to allow Australians every year to travel to Gallipoli to commemorate this, which to them was 8 months of defending their country and land from multiple invading countries, some of which were from the other side the world (like Australia and New Zealand). It amazes me that they let us every year.
7 yrs ago for the 100 Anniversary I went on a special cruise for it and went on the route of our soldiers took and in the way we stopped at different countries. 3 days before the service I did a tour of Pine Gap where the soldiers were buried and there is also a cemetery of the Turkish soldiers as well. It was very moving. On the morning of the service it was televised to the 🚢. We were anchored of shore about 1km.
I’d like to mention, my great great uncle who died on the western front ( a battle in France during WW1) I feel so connected to a bloke whom I never met, who died in 1917, every year we light a candle for him and go through a really special book of things he sent back home during his time fighting, it’s incredibly special for me and my family, we are beyond proud of our boys known or not, it’s a beautiful thing, we also have rememberance day on the 11th November
My Dad was a soldier in WW2 and he died young of cancer so yes we remember them. Thank you for showing that.
Anzac Biscuits were sent to the soldiers in the battlefield, from Australia. Because of how long it took to get there, they couldn't have any ingredients that would spoil during the transport (they were placed inside tins). So the recipe has no eggs in it. Just flour, water, melted butter, golden syrup and baking soda. A slightly later recipe has desiccated coconut in it too.
As some have mentioned already during the height of COVID we stood at the end of our driveways and listened to services on the radio as a community. One really moving thing from commemorations that year was that people who could play an instrument were given the music to the Last Post and asked to play at a certain time. It was really incredible that you could hear at 6am in the morning in the distance all these Last Posts. Was really powerful. The dawn service is always very moving and gives a sense of community as Australians, we ALL come together and it's very solemn, was beautiful to see that still occur even when we couldn't physically come together... we still were together.
Oops I almost forgot there are a lot of memorial services across France as well and some of the French villages are deeply thankful for the Australian soldiers who defended them in WW1
Every city & town in Australia has some sought of war memorial that on ANZAC Day will conduct a dawn service that anyone can attend. The Returned Services League (RSL) will typically host these events nationwide and you can attend their club rooms all year round.
As I am a first generation Australian from a migrating family from eastern Europe during WWII. My recognition of the ANZAC's is to thank them in spirit for their sacrifices they made in gifting us the freedoms we so cherish in this great country.
No matter the geopolitics, our service men and women should always get our utmost respect for serving our country and defending our freedoms that we still enjoy today.
ANZAC is also an acronym standing for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps. Love your videoes guys.
That's the War Memorial building in Canberra !
13:52 we also have soldiers guarding over the tomb of the unknown soldier in Canberra although the ceremonies and changing of the guard, inspections e.t.c are alot more simple and straightforward, it seems to be alot less ritualistic than the one at Washington. Personally I like the USA ceremony more compared to ours.
"They shall grow not old,
As we who 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.
I cannot, ever, get through hearing that verse with tears flowing down my face.
A couple of years ago, at the height of the covid scare, the usual public services were put on hold. We were asked to remember with minimal contact. In our small street in Sydney's Upper North Shore, at 6am everyone went to their front gate, holding a small candle. One of the young fellows a couple of houses away was in the cadet band at the nearby school - he came out with a bugle and played the Last Post. It was intensely moving.
The usual observance is at a local park. About 1500 - 2000 people gather at 8 am, with various dignitaries. The traffic is stopped for a short march, a speech or 2, the Last Post, silence, and Reveille. Flowers laid at the nearby War Memorial.
If you ever come to Australia you need to visit the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. It was founded by a man named C.W. Bean, who was a journalist and photographer who accompanied the troops onto the beaches at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.
Hi guys, love watching you both learn about our beautiful country. If you go to a local RSL club( Returned Services League) every day at 6pm they dim the lights,request people stand and stop whatever they are doing...they then quote the Ode of Remembrance...'they shall not grow old as we who are left grow old,age shall not weary them nor the years condemn,at the going down of the sun and the morning we shall remember them'. After a minute silence every one says Lest We Forget.
It is very poignant...well for those of us who were brought up to pay respect for all those who serve our country past and present.
A little bit of trivia for you. For many years Vietnam veterans were not acknowledged by the RSL and not included in the ANZAC day commemorate events,this has been changed for quite a while now those brave souls are given the respect they deserve.
Look forward to see you both Down Under..
Yesterday at the Dawn Service held in Melbourne 50 thousand people attended and that is just one of the Dawn Services held all over the country and also in Turkey.
When the Last Post gets played on the bugle as the sun is rising, you can't help but tear up remembering all those that served and paid the ultimate price, God bless them all.
Much respect for reacting to this I have grandfather's that served of both my mother and father's side in world war 2... 🎖️✝️🎖️ Least we forget
There's a Australian song 'And the Band played Waltzing Matilda' about the suffering and loss of World War 1
Well done. We hold this day to our hearts as we paid a high price in WW1 with almost 10% of the male population of that time being either killed or injured in a war on the other side of the earth. To put that in perspective, Imagine the 15,000,000 of the current US forces suffering the same.
What is never made clear in these videos is just how bad Gallipoli was. The ANZACs were sent to what is now called ANZAC cove, for a beach landing. Straight off the beach was steep hills that the Turkish were stationed on with machine gun nests. They had a huge benefit of high ground, and the ANZACs were expected to run up hills into gun fire to make any headway. It was a really inhospitable temperature, food rotted easily and insects were everywhere getting into the food and biting the soldiers. It was hell on earth and the ANZACs were ordered to try and take it for most of a year
Absolutely agree
It's no longer believed that they had machine guns waiting there. It was rifle fire.
@@RandomStuff-he7lu Not quite correct. Its believed that they didn't have machine guns day 1, but were deployed a number of weeks later once they knew where they were needed most.
@@WaDarkPhoenix My point was that they really only faced rifle fire during the landings.
@@RandomStuff-he7lu Yes, but im talking about the entire Gallipoli campaign, not the landings.
Australians and New Zealanders travel to Gallipoli and de Villers-Bretonneux in France for the Anzac dawn services there… every state in Australia has a special Dawn service as well…
I would suggest watching a dawn service.. they are beautiful
We also celebrate Remembrance day which is on the 11th of November where the whole country stands still in remembrance of our soldiers who have died and suffered in all wars and armed conflict ( the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month) with many memorial events hosted.
We, too, have a tomb of the unknown soldier, at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Every day at the memorial, the day is concluded at 16:45 hrs with the playing of The Last Post by the Pool of Reflection [where the unknown soldier's tomb resides as does the plaques with the names of all the servicemen who have lost their lives in Australia's defence]. If you are visiting Canberra then this is a definite must on your bucket list. In fact, set aside a whole day to visit the memorial. It's an incredible experience.
When the pandemic hit, ANZAC day memorial service could not be held due to COVID 19. Australians were all encouraged to go to their drive way at dawn and hold a private ANZAC memorial service. Many people, families, friends, neighbours all did this, with candles, poppies and warm clothes. Some were lucky neighbourhoods had a person with an instrument (trumpet, bugle, tuba) play "The Last Post" and "We Will Remember Them", whilst bowing their heads in silences.
The dawn services in Turkey and France are televised live...oddly enough it was televised today (26th) because..you know...the earth is round and stuff
Every Anzac Day a large number of Australians travel the Gallipoli for a Dawn service. It is the spot where the original ANZACs landed at dawn.
Gallipoli was the the first battle that Australia partook in as a country. We had been to previous wars but as part of the British forces
I started attending ANZAC Day marches as a spectator in 1960. Several of my relatives who had returned from WWI and WWII marched. In those days thousands of men and women marched. Now, those veterans are no longer with us. The veterans now are my friends and family who fought in Vietnam and a few survivors from Korea, although most of them are gone too. Now, family members are allowed to march in memory of ancestors who fought in war.