ANZAC Day Remembrance

[gilliam]

nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/Anzac/images/mem-images/camwinb.jpg

War memorial window, St Andrew’s Church, Cambridge.

ANZAC was the name given to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps soldiers who landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey early on the morning of 25 April 1915 during the First World War (1914-1918).

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.

awm.gov.au/commemoration/anzac/anzac_tradition.htm

 

[mpav]

Thanks for remembering them here. May they rest in peace.

 

[Gerry_Hunter]

WWI was momentous for many British Dominions.

Many hold Canada stepped out from the crowd of colonies at Vimy Ridge. Australia and New Zealand can say the same about Gallipoli. And then, we went on to Dieppe and Tobruk respectively in WWII.

May all the men who moved Australia and New Zealand out from the crowd rest in peace with the Lord.

Blessings,

Gerry

 

[Chickamauga]

And how well I remember that terrible day,
How our blood stained the sand and the water.
And of how in that hell that they call Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.
Johnny Turk he was waiting, he primed himself well,
He showered us with bullets, and he rained us with shell,
And in five minutes flat he’d blown us all to hell,
Nearly blew us right back to Australia.
But the band played Waltzing Matilda,
As we stopped to bury our slain.
We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs,
Then we started all over again.

From:
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Words and Music: Eric Bogle.
Copyright: Larrikin Music, Sydney, Australia

Entire lyrics and tune can be found here:

mysongbook.de/msb/songs/r_clarke/banplayd.htm