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"On Anzac eve we dug in among friends. At last I felt like an Anzac, and I imagine there were 600 others like me, " — Captain Reg Saunders , said following the withdrawal during the Battle of Kapyong
I ANZAC Corps, under the command of General Birdwood, departed for France in early 1916. II ANZAC Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General Alexander Godley, followed soon after. [14] In January 1916, the 4th (ANZAC) Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps, was formed with Australian and New Zealand troops.
Simpson and his donkey statue by Peter Corlett outside the Australian War Memorial, Canberra The Anzac spirit or Anzac legend is a concept which suggests that Australian and New Zealand soldiers possess shared characteristics, specifically the qualities those soldiers allegedly exemplified on the battlefields of World War I. These perceived qualities include endurance, courage, ingenuity, good ...
War memorial in ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand CWGC headstone with excerpt from "For The Fallen". Laurence Binyon (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943), [3] a British poet, was described as having a "sober" response to the outbreak of World War I, in contrast to the euphoria many others felt (although he signed the "Author's Declaration" that defended British involvement in the ...
[7] However, writer Tim Lycett argues that there is no hard evidence to suggest that Hamilton's message is the reason why "digger" was applied to ANZAC troops in general. [ 3 ] W. H. Downing, in Digger Dialects , a glossary of words and phrases used by Australian personnel during the war, says that digger was first used in 1916 to mean a New ...
Australian and New Zealand forces landed on Turkish soil at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915. Sing began his military career as part of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) forces in the Gallipoli Campaign in modern day Turkey. Biographer John Hamilton described the Turkish terrain thus: "It is a country made for snipers.
The I ANZAC Corps (First Anzac Corps) was a combined Australian and New Zealand army corps that served during World War I.. It was formed in Egypt in February 1916 as part of the reorganisation and expansion of the Australian Imperial Force and the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) following the evacuation of Gallipoli in December 1915.
John Kirkpatrick (6 July 1892 – 19 May 1915), commonly known as John Simpson, was a stretcher bearer with the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance during the Gallipoli campaign – the Allied attempt to capture Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire, during the First World War.