Anzac Day 2015 - 100 Years

Observed on 25 April each year, Anzac Day was originally to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli against the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders "who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations".

Today huge crowds turned out across Australia for the Dawn Services to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Gallipoli landings.  There were many similar but smaller commemorations in every town across Australia.  

My main photo is from the Blackwood War Memorial where I was able to include the flags, plus a family paying their respects.

Then it was on to the memorial at the small village of Coromandel Valley.  This is a very old settlement in its own right, and the War Memorial and garden is shown in my second photos for today, seen when you scroll down. Here is Paladian's blip from Coromandel Valley.

I also want to make a mention of all the wonderful WWI documentaries that have been shown on TV over the last weeks. 

The famous Ode comes from For the Fallen, a poem by the English poet and writer Laurence Binyon and was published in London in the Winnowing Fan; Poems of the Great War in 1914.:

"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."