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25 April is Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand, a national day of remembrance, that traditionally is a day to attend the dawn service and attend or participate in the Anzac Day march to pay our respects to Australian and New Zealander service people who have served and/or died in all wars, but in particular those who fought at Gallipoli campaign in 1915.
Although Remembrance Day (11 November) is the official day for commemorating the war dead, it has gradually been eclipsed in the public estimation by Anzac Day (25 April), which unlike Remembrance Day is a specifically Australian (and New Zealand) day of commemoration and a public holiday in both nations. Anzac Day at the Shrine is observed ...
Anzac Day was first commemorated at the Australian War Memorial in 1942, but, due to government orders preventing large public gatherings in case of Japanese air attack, it was a small affair and was neither a march nor a memorial service. Anzac Day has been annually commemorated at the Australian War Memorial ever since.
A Catafalque party. A catafalque party is a guard, usually of four people, that stands watch over the coffin and catafalque of a distinguished person or over a significant monument.
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Outside view of the two-up shed in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Two original 1915 Australian pennies in a kip from which they are tossed. 1915 is significant as the year of the Gallipoli campaign which is remembered annually on Anzac Day Australian soldiers playing two-up during World War I at the front near Ypres, 23 December 1917 Painting of two-up game.
Each year on Anzac Day, services are held at the memorial with thousands of Cantabrians in attendance. [13] In 2011, with the Christchurch Central City cordoned off following the earthquake in February, the service was held in Hagley Park instead. [14] In subsequent years, the annual service went to Cranmer Square.
Hobart Cenotaph (usually The Cenotaph, also referred to as Hobart War Memorial) is the main commemorative military monument for the Australian state of Tasmania.It is located in the capital Hobart in a prominent position on the Queens Domain, on a small rise overlooking the city and River Derwent.