Australia And New Zealand Mark Anzac Day

The Australian: Anzac Day 2017: Thousands turn out for dawn services

Anzac Day 2017: Thousands have gathered for Dawn Services and marches across Australia and New Zealand to commemorate Anzac Day and the Gallipoli landing.

Less than 1000 pilgrims attended the dawn service at Gallipoli making for an intimate commemoration of the birth of Australia and New Zealand’s tenacious military defence that spawned the legend of the Anzac as the sun rose over the Dardanelles.

It was the lowest turnout of Australians and New Zealanders marking their respects to the diggers since records and registration began more than a decade ago, attributed in large part to the specific terror threat levelled against the Anzac Day service and the ongoing security unrest in Istanbul, the main gateway for tourists. Officials said 857 people and 151 VIP’s attended the morning service.

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Australia And New Zealand Mark Anzac Day

Julia Zorthian, Time: The 100-Year History Behind Anzac Day

Australia and New Zealand first observed the day on April 25, 1916

For a century now, in the dark hours before daybreak each April 25, Australians and New Zealanders have gathered at dawn vigils to commemorate those who served and died in wars.

The memorial day shared by both nations occurs on the anniversary of the Anzac forces landing in Gallipoli in 1915, at the onset of World War I. But the observance does not mark a decisive victory. Rather, Gallipoli was a prolonged failure for the Allies.

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Remembering Anzac Day

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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.

An estimated 35,000 people gathered beneath a canopy of umbrellas for a cold, wet Anzac Day dawn service at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance.

Many young people joined the crowd packed around the eternal flame and facing a shrine lit against a black, pre-dawn sky.

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Update from New Zealand: Anzac Day: A nation remembers -- nzherald