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The State Library of Queensland holds the minutes from the Anzac Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland; [23] the collection has been digitised and available to view online. [24] In 2019, the collection was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Australian Register. [25] First Anzac Day parade in Sydney, along Macquarie Street, 25 April 1916
The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans [1] were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods (first side of the triangle), which were then traded for slaves with rulers of African states ...
An ANZAC trench at Gallipoli with a Māori whakairo in stone. In the First World War, the soldiers of both countries were formed into the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs). Together Australia and New Zealand saw their first major military action in the Battle of Gallipoli, in which both suffered major casualties. For many decades ...
At dawn on April 25, 1915, thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) were among a larger Allied force that landed on the narrow beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula ...
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Hundreds of thousands of people gathered across Australia and New Zealand for dawn services and street marches Thursday to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day. New Zealand Prime Minister ...
According to MacLean and Phillips in The sorrow and the pride: New Zealand war memorials, it is possible to make 'a good case...for it being the finest public monument in the country'. [7] [12] Each year on Anzac Day, services are held at the memorial with thousands of Cantabrians in attendance. [13]
Memorial, after refurbishment in 2007. The memorial was refurbished in 2007 and rededicated in time for Anzac Day (25 April). The pavement was altered to incorporate a larger five pointed star motif as used in the flag of Turkey, to match the existing wall in the form of the crescent moon.