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in ww1 women could'nt fight they could only nurse.

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simpson and his donkey helped peaple with wounds.

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Every year, on the 25th of April, Australians are given the opportunity to pause, reflect and remember the incredibly brave ANZAC soldiers who lost their lives, or who were wounded, at Gallipoli.

To help commemorate, we've assembled these 10 facts that you may not know about Anzac Day:

1. Originally, the term 'ANZAC' was used to mean any soldier who was a member of the army corps that fought at Gallipoli. While typically thought of as just Australian and New Zealand nationals, the ANZACs included officers from India, Ceylon, the Pacific Islands, England and Ireland. However, the term has subsequently been broadened to mean any Australian or New Zealander who fought or served in the First World War.

2. A soldier named Alec Campbell was the last surviving ANZAC. He died on 16 May, 2002.

3. The most significant time to remember the ANZACs is at dawn, as this is when the original Gallipoli landing occurred. The dawn service was first started by returned soldiers in the 1920s and originally, dawn services were only attended by veterans. Today, anyone can attend a service.

4. One of the key reasons for the failure of the Gallipoli offensive was the fact that the boats carrying the Australian and New Zealand soldiers landed at the wrong spot. Instead of finding a flat beach, they faced steep cliffs, and constant barrages of fire and shelling from the Turkish soldiers.

5. While the battle itself was a crushing defeat, the Australian and New Zealand soldiers were relentless and displayed incredible courage and endurance, even despite the most horrible of circumstances. This is how the ANZAC legend was born.

6. The Gallipoli battle itself ended in a stalemate, when the ANZACs retreated after eight months of battle.

7. The ANZAC spirit is wonderfully represented by a brave man - Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick. He was a stretcher bearer in the Australian Army Medical Corps, and spent his nights and days rescuing injured men from the battle lines in Monash Valley. He transported them back to the safety of ANZAC cove on his donkey. He is thought to have rescued over 300 wounded soldiers.

8. Another man who epitomised the ANZAC spirit was Charles Billyard-Leake. In 1914, he was living in a large manor in the UK - which he turned into a hospital for ANZAC soldiers. During the war, and for a while afterwards, over 50,000 Australians stayed at this Harefield Hospital.

9. The Last Post was typically played during war to tell soldiers the day's fighting had finished. At memorial services, it symbolises that the duty of the dead has finished, and they can rest in peace.

10. ANZAC biscuits were believed to have made an appearance during the Gallipoli offensive. Made of oats, sugar, flour, coconut, butter and golden syrup, they were hard and long-lasting, and were ideal for troops in the trenches. They were apparently eaten instead of bread.

Lest we forget.

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Every year, on the 25th of April, Australians are given the opportunity to pause, reflect and remember the incredibly brave ANZAC soldiers who lost their lives, or who were wounded, at Gallipoli.

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the countries that celebrate ANZAC day are..australia,Canada,Cayman Islands,United States/Kindom,New zeland,Belgium and France.

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During the first  world war, red poppies were among the first  plants to spring up  in the devastated  battlefields

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Belgium
France and
Turkey.

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Australian,NewZealand,Army,corps

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As the 100th anniversary of the start of WW1's Gallipoli campaign approaches, descendants of those who fought are being urged to join the official commemorations in London.

At dawn on April 25th 1915, Allied troops invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in Ottoman Turkey. The ultimate aim was to force the Ottoman Empire out of the war. The invasion failed. A bloody stalemate lasted until Allied troops evacuated the peninsula in January 1916.

"It was a humiliating defeat," said Paul Cornish, a senior curator at Imperial War Museums.

Conditions were dreadful. Over the course of the campaign the weather swung from stiflingly hot to bitterly cold.

"There were flies and disease," said Mr Cornish. "There were terrible problems with dysentery and things like jaundice. Eventually there were blizzards and ice that were causing a lot of frostbite. It wasn't a very nice place to be at all."

Some 57,000 Allied troops lost their lives during the campaign. One of them was L/Cpl Archibald Macleod from 7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. He died aged 27 and is buried at Lancashire Landing Cemetery in Turkey.

L/Cpl MacLeod's great-grandson Dean Emsley, from Battersea, is one of the descendants who will attend April's commemoration at the Cenotaph in Whitehall.

"He wrote a letter to my granddad in April 1915," said Mr Emsley. "He deployed to Gallipoli on the 6th of May... he died of wounds on 27 May."

The letter, sent from Atbara in Sudan, read:
My Dear Ronnie, We are not fighting the Germans here, we are just seeing that the Germans do not get the people here to fight against King George. Be a good lad. Do what your mother and your teacher at school tell you to do. Always help your mother. Never cry even if your hands are cold. I'm going to bring you home a little CROCODILE. Your loving Dad.
"My assumption is that he knew he was deploying to a war-zone," said Mr Emsley. "This was probably his last chance to write a letter to his little boy who was seven years old. It was actually his seventh birthday when the letter was written."

Mr Emsley is a former serviceman himself.

"I was involved in the war in Bosnia first of all and a little bit later in Gulf War number one, so I have an idea how he was feeling," he said.

British troops made up the majority of Allied casualties at Gallipoli but the campaign has become synonymous with Australia and New Zealand.

"It was their first taste of action in the war," said Mr Cornish. "They lost over 11,000 killed at Gallipoli, which is a shocking figure in the context of the relatively small populations of Australia and New Zealand at the time."

Approximately 90,000 Ottoman Empire troops were also killed during the campaign. With a significant Turkish population in London that is something now being acknowledged in classrooms.

"It was a great victory for the Turks," said Mr Cornish. "From what I've noticed in schools in London, Turkish children are well aware of it because it was where the leader of their national reinvention, Ataturk, made his first impact. It is very important."

The National Commemoration of Gallipoli will take place at the Cenotaph on 25 April. The event will follow the annual Anzac Day Dawn Service at the Australian War Memorial and New Zealand Memorial at Hyde Park corner.

Helen Grant MP is the minister responsible for the government's World War One commemorations. "Gallipoli is a very important campaign," she said. "We want to commemorate it and we want to do it very well."

The event will comprise a service, the laying of wreaths by senior members of the military and international governments and a march past the Cenotaph.

Registration for the event finished on Thursday.

For L/Cpl MacLeod's great-grandson it will be a unique experience.

"It's 100 years since it happened," Mr Emsley said.

"It will probably be the largest remembrance opportunity... I've never been to one of the November Remembrance Day parades.

"I've got my great-granddad's medals and I'll dig out my own medals. There will be a sense of pride, but more a sense of loss. Here was a young guy who could have had a full life."

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As the 100th anniversary of the start of WW1's Gallipoli campaign approaches, descendants of those who fought are being urged to join the official commemorations in London. At dawn on April 25th 1915, Allied troops invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in Ottoman Turkey. The ultimate aim was to force the Ottoman Empire out of the war.

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25th of April

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LEST WE FORGET.

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ANZAC Day, we're told, is Australia's " most important national occasion ".

But beyond the glib cliches about how the ill-fated Anzac "campaign" at Gallipoli Cove in 1915 "shaped Australia's identity", there is little political and historical reflection on what happened and why.

The Anzac landing was instigated by First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, at the request of the Russian Tsar. Its aim was to open a new front against Germany and its allies by invading Turkey and making a grab for control of Istanbul and the Bosphorus, a strategic neck of water connecting the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

Despite huge opposition to World War I at home, expressed through two successful anti-conscription campaigns, the real lessons of this disastrous war have been deliberately obscured in favour of an approved nationalist gospel, to which dissent is deemed treasonous.

Websites, school curriculums, and most media outlets are gearing up to reinforce the myth about the importance of war to the life of a nation: it doesn't matter why you are sent to war, whether your government lied to you or not, the greatest thing an ordinary Australian can do is die in a war.

My great-uncle Lieutenant Arthur G Hinman was just 24 when, as part of the 15th Battalion, he was killed at Quinn's Post in Gallipoli - said to be extremely dangerous because of the proximity of the opposing trenches.

Arthur, apparently a good Aussie rules footy player, signed up after completing an engineering degree at Melbourne University and starting work as a mining engineer in Tasmania, his birthplace.

Historian Charles Bean in the Story of Anzac describes how Arthur, having only just landed at Gallipoli on April 25, made clear his disagreement with the commanders' plan to dig in against the Turks.

Arthur "urged a strong objection to the whole undertaking, pointing out that in the morning following the assault, the Australians certainly would be driven out of any captured trenches by the Turkish machine guns, which would enfilade them from both flanks".

Nevertheless, the trench digging went ahead. Arthur followed orders and he, along with 473 others, was killed at Quinn's Post just 15 days after he landed.

In a letter to Arthur's mother Maude, fellow officer Captain JA Good described the bleakness he and Arthur faced in those final days.

"At this time he and I were the only officers of the original Tasmanian Companies in the 15th who remained, and often at night, as we sat in our dug-out, we wondered who would be the next to go, for it seemed impossible that we should remain long unwounded when so many had been hit."

Arthur, like so many other young men, was senselessly killed in a war that was supposed to "end all wars", but which - in reality - was just one of many wars to reshape colonial empires.

The remorseless nationalistic propaganda myth that Gallipoli was about "defending freedom and democracy" is aimed at winning, if not support, at least acquiescence, for new wars.

Just as the Turks resisted invasion in WWI, so too have the people of Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. But being no match to the world's military superpower, these countries have paid a heavy price.

These more recent disasters have also been obscured by the Anzac myth-makers keen to remove any connection between the imperial failures of yesterday and today.

To this end, the Anzac story has been reduced to a depoliticised, sentimental story of courage and mateship, and the sacrifice of so many innocent young men.

Many of those who returned from serving - including the last surviving Gallipoli veteran, Alec Campbell, a unionist and anti-war activist - spoke out against war. But their voices have been muted in the official histories.

If "lest we forget" is to have any meaning, we need to resist those glorifying war, listen to those who dissented to wars being fought in our name - last century and today - and do what we can to prevent ordinary people from being sent to fight and die in wars for imperial gain.

This is a better way of honouring the dead.

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Lest we forget why Anzac Day glorifies war

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ANZAC Day, we're told, is Australia's "most important national occasion". But beyond the glib cliches about how the ill-fated Anzac "campaign" at Gallipoli Cove in 1915 "shaped Australia's identity", there is little political and historical reflection on what happened and why.