In a village in France , in the shool, in every class room, when they had blackboards, in chalk , was written the words..."Never Forget The Australians" for the action the Australians fought at that village to dislodge the Germans and give it back to the people and later on assited the village to rebuild with donations from the people of Australia. The village is called Villiers Bretoneux.

ANZAC Day by a Brit who conveniently neglects to point out that the ANZACS were sent to Gallipoli and put ashore at the wrong beach by the British. Then points out that after 8 months they were evacuated by the British like the Brits were the big heroes. Although it started in 1916 to honour the soldiers of WW1 it is now a day to remember and honour all Australian and New Zealand troops who fought in any war. Cheers and thanks m8!

I was at the ANZAC dawn service this morning 🌄 always a sad time of day remembering our fallen soldiers 😢.

My brother was a part of the Anzac dawn service at Gallipoli yesterday. He was a catafalque guard on the cenotaph. Its definitely a special day. I have 3 family members who fought at Gallipoli, 1 never came home, he died there and his grave is unknown but his name is on the New Zealand memorial at Chunuk Bair

The British officers sent soldier after soldier over land that was never going to be taken from the sea. The first Anzac Day was a spontaneous March/gathering around Australia, Cairo, Gallipoli in 1916. Those soldiers knew before they went over that bunker they would be killed. They were courageous, brave and willing to sacrifice their lives for our freedom. There are no diggers alive but rosemary is traditionally worn as it grew wild at Gallipoli. We also bake Anzac biscuits as they were shelf stable biscuit that were sent to troops. Each city, town has a dawn service, and later a parade of serving and former soldiers. Many family members March with their father, grandfathers, great grandfathers medals on the opposite side (the right side of chest). Extremely important day for Australia, and all campaigns Aussies fought in.

ANZAC Day was started to commemorate the Australians and New Zealanders that fought and died at Gallipoli during the first world war and that is still true. ANZAC Day has now grown to ALSO commemorate those Aussie and Kiwi Military personnel who have partcipated in any armed conflict since WWI, including (but not limited to), WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, Timor etc. Three Cheers for the ANZACs.

If you can, check out 'And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda' by Eric Bogle (a Scottish born Sth Aussie). It is a heart-wrenchingly descriptive song. LEST WE FORGET 🌹 🇦🇺 & 🇳🇿

I wouldn’t say it’s like your Independent’s Day more like your Memorable Day. We don’t celebrate ANZAC Day we commemorate it.

Thank you for remembering the ANZACs on this day. I have lived in England since 2004 and have had various family that served in the British and NZ armies so I was brought up to remember the sacrifice of previous generations. I am pleased to note that 2023 has the most attended dawn services in NZ for 8 years. Every little town in NZ has a war memorial inscribed with the names of the local lads who gave their lives for other peoples freedom. They are all covered with wreaths and poppies for ANZAC day, and all are the site of dawn services.

I love that people are learning, and teaching others, about what goes on in other parts of the world through these reaction videos. I'll be making Anzac Biscuits today, created by the mother's of soldiers because they kept for months without going rancid so could be sent overseas to their sons. ♥

"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours ... You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well." There is debate as to whether Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who was a commander of Ottoman forces at the Dardenelles during the first world war and later the founder of modern Turkey, actually said these words, but they grace memorials on three continents, including at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli. They are part of the ANZAC Legend. Lest We Forget.

You can tell a British guy narrated this. The Brits didn’t save us from Gallipoli, they put us there knowing that it was going to be a disaster. They reduced the number of British soldiers and sent the ANZACs to certain slaughter. It was a tactical distraction to allow the allies down the Dardanelles strait to secure Constantinople and thus knock the Turks out of the war. Both attempts failed miserably and this was made worse by poor timing, communications and intelligence from the British command led by Winston Churchill.

❤ to our Kiwi Brothers……Lest we forget….💖💖🦘🦘🇦🇺

ANZAC day is a memorial for my friends who didn't come home with me from Afghanistan and the ones who have killed themselves since coming home

The ingenuity of the withdrawal was brilliant. Out numbered and at a height disadvantage withdrawal was risky. To keep the appearance that they were still defending their position, they rigged their rilfes with two ration tins. One filled with water had a hole that dripped water into another tin connected to the trigger. As it filled with water, the weight eventually pulled the trigger. So there were constant shots ringing out from the trenches keeping the enemies heads down whilst the ANZACs withdrew.

Cheers mate for learning and now remember our guys as well

The events at Gallipoli are a prequel to the Dieppe campaign in WW II. Both disasters were the result of decisions taken by Winston Churchill and it is he who bears the blame for the loss of so many brave lives. In our suburb of Sydney, we remember them with an early morning service in the local park (holding it at the Memorial apparently affects traffic, and cars take priority over remembrance, of course). There is a brief introduction, a short talk by the local Member of Parliament, wreath laying, and the minute's silence. This service showed signs of failing, but the suburb hosts a large presence by the Seventh Day Adventist church; that church has taken over the running of the ceremony and it has been saved. This year saw about 1500 to 2000 attending.

ANZAC day is important in New Zealand as well as Australia, and most towns and cites have a dawn parade on the morning of April 25th. We also wear red poppies on that day. in remembrance of all those who served and died during both world wars

ANZAC is actually an acronym that stands for Australian & New Zealand Army Corps! 🪖 🇦🇺 🇳🇿

Lest We Forget

Hey Squirrel, thank for being interested in the ANZAC Day commemoration, while my wife & I didn't have relatives at Gallipoli we did have relatives in both WW1 & WW11 with quite a few not returning. My Great Uncle, Oliver Earnest Raymond Webb, (my mothers uncle) who was lost with all hands on the HMAS Sydney off the Western Australia Coast. (WW11) .

65,000 ANZACs fought at Gallipoli, along with 330,000 British and 79,000 French. The ANZACs did suffer a high numbers of casualties, 12,000 dead along with 31,000 British and 9,000 French as well as 57,000 Turks.

One way to look at it is that the area the ANZACS held on Gallipoli was approximately half the size of central park in New York. So imagine living for 8months in that space in some places no more than 6 yards away from the enemy , bad water, monotonous food, rats, and the smell of death all around. Also imagine being central park with snipers firing at you from the skyscrapers and throwing bombs down randomly. I doubt I would last long

It's about time the US found out there is another world outside the US.

"...On this day above all days we recall those who served in war and who did not return to receive the grateful thanks of the nation. We remember those who still sleep where they were left - amid the holly scrub in the valleys and on the ridges of Gallipoli - on the rocky and terraced hills of Palestine - and in the lovely cemeteries of France. We remember those who lie asleep in ground beneath the shimmering haze of the Libyan desert - at Bardia, Derna, Tobruk - and amid the mountain passes and olive groves of Greece both on the mainland and on the island of Crete, and the rugged, snow-capped hills of Lebanon and Syria. We remember those who lie buried in the rank jungle of Malaya and Burma - in New Guinea - and in the distant isles of the Pacific. We remember those who lie buried amid loving friends in our Motherland and in our own far north. We remember those who lie in unknown resting places in almost every land, and those gallant men whose grave is in the unending sea. Especially do we remember those who died as prisoners of war, remote from their homeland, and from the comforting presence of their kith and kin. We think of those of our women’s services who gave their lives in our own and foreign lands and at sea, and of those who proved to be, in much more than name, the sisters of our fighting men. We recall too, the staunch friends who fought beside our men on their first Anzac Day - with men of New Zealand who helped to create the name ANZAC. We recall all those who gave their lives in the Royal Navy, the British Army, the Royal Air Force, the Merchant Service, and in other British Commonwealth and Allied Forces, and we think of those British men and women who fell, when, for the second time in history, their nation and its kindred stood against the overwhelming might of an oppressor. We think of every man and woman who in those crucial years died so that the lights of freedom and humanity might continue to shine. We shall be ever mindful too, of those brave men who left our shores and died in Korea, Malaya, Borneo, Vietnam, Afghanistan and in Peacekeeping Forces, helping to safeguard the Commonwealth and other countries of the Free World. They fought against the on-march of enemies who were thrusting to obtain new bases from which they may attack and destroy our freedom. This freedom was won from two world wars and cost the lives of a hundred thousand Australians. May these all rest proudly in the knowledge of their achievement, and may we and our successors in that heritage left to us, prove worthy of their sacrifice...." - Charles W Bean - Historian. (Charles Bean landed on 25th April alongside the ANZACs and lived on the front line with them until the end of the war.)

ANZAC day is a very special day to me & my family to honour our great grandfather who died in gallpoli & my great uncle who went down with HMAS Sydney (1941) & thank them for sacrificing their lives for what we have today❤❤❤😢💔 RIP

Anzac day, and especially the Dawn services at 6am throughout the country, is more important and popular in Aorearoa New Zealand than ever before and keeps the memory of sacrifice green in the new generations who are shown what sacrifice is. We will remember them.

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The loss of life in WW1 was horrific. The British lost 6% of the male population, around 880,000 people. I don't know how that stacks percentage wise with our Australian cousins but it was a horrible and bloody war on all sides.

Nice hat bro. I remember that channel. That's where I first met cha!

I just tell Americans that what they did on the French beaches on D-Day in WW2, our soldiers also did a similar beach landing under machine gun fire, like D-Day, on the Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey in WW1 on April 25th. Most understand it at a basic level then. In both battles, thousands died on the beach.

It is a sad time but you have to remember those close to veterans who also bear the brunt of the mental anguish they go through.

Australia had NOT been under the control of the British Empire for 13 years, and NZ for 7 years. Not often a historical statement is 100% wrong.

My great uncle is buried in Belgium

I know it's a short vid and the guy prob did not have the time to put in more information, but the Gallopili campaign was a bit different to what he inferred and today, even the Turks honour ANZAC day and there is a memorial service on Turkish soil that many Australians attend each year. Mustafa Kamal was the leader of the Turks way back when and he said of the Australians who died at Gallipoli, " Mothers of Australia, do not weep for your sons, for they lay on friendly soil."

Thank you for taking the time to learn about Anzac Day. Remembering the sacrifice of the volunteer soldiers brought a tear to my eye. May they rest in peace.

LEST WE FORGET

australia independance day is australia day on 26th January

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Thanks squirrel, LEST WE FORGET 🙏

Why did you watch an ENGLISH presentation of ANZAC history? I can tell you that the ANZAC’s were not fighting for the liberty of all after the first day, when I asked an ORIGINAL Digger why he fought, his answer shaped me “We came to help our motherland but after the British officers sent us to the wrong ground, we stayed for our mates!” He was 100 years old when I met him, he landed on Gallipoli Shore when he was 14 yrs old. I’m believing him, never a British REMF. Never British polititians, as they sent our troops to the wrong spot and ignored ANZAC officers who knew how to read maps… please watch an Australian presentation and decide for yourself. 3:36

Always go to Dawn Service, my great great Uncle died in France and his name is in the Memorial at Villiers Bretonneux, My sons great great grandfather died during the Somme offensive and is in the St Omer cemetery France. It is important to us to remember all sacrifice in any capacity, any war or conflict. I am so proud of the Aussies who attend, and those who choose to find out about it.

I've just got back from our local Anzac day dawn service, then to the RSL for breakfast & beers. Now I am gearing up for the Anzac day footy match, Essendon Bombers & Collingwood Magpies...and I'm a proud Bombers supporter, so go the bombers.

July 4th is like our Jan 26th. ANZAC Day is akin to your Memorial Day

The Gallipoli campaign was a costly failure for the Allies, with an estimated 27,000 French, and 115,000 British and dominion troops (Great Britain and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Newfoundland) killed or wounded. Over half these casualties (73,485) were British and Irish troops. New Zealand suffered around 8000 killed and wounded, about 5.6 percent of Allied casualties on Gallipoli. The Ottoman Empire paid a heavy price for their victory: an estimated 250,000 Turkish and Arab troops were killed or wounded defending Gallipoli.

ANZAC DAY is NOT about Gallipoli as portryed in the guys vid, it had it's genisis in that conflict but has gone on to reflect on the uselessness of war and honours those who participated in any madness in conflict or arms but it CELEBRATES the remeberance, NOT the glory and remembers the sacrifce and the stupidity to let us all remember we should strive for peace because war kills precious young men and women and it is THAT consideration, not spoken or even articulated much , that is the light of ANZAC day!

Bit of a misunderstanding at the beginning. Prior to 1901 Australia was a number of mostly independent sovereign colonies but in 1901 joined together to become the COUNTRY of Australia, the 13 years prior to WW1 in 1914 they were NOT under British rule. I do think the guy who made the vid you are commenting on is a Brit , judging by his accent any way.

Like your 4th of July , our Country day is ( Australia Day ids on the 26th of January ) So our ANZAC Day , is the same I guess , as your Memorial Day ( May 29th )

It’s not a Holliday it’s a day of remembrance and to thank the people who sacrificed their lives so we have the freedom we have today , I’ll be there tomorrow with my son at dawn…LEST WE FORGET

ANZAC Day is not a day of celebration. ANZAC Day is a day of commemoration and reflection. It is a day in which we remember those brave men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice so we could be free. ANZAC Day is the equivalent to D-Day for our American brothers and sisters. Lest We Forget.

Successfully evacuated? Don’t forget the British put them there in the first place. Australia’s population was small. The losses were great.

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Actually the loss was 10,000

July 4th..🙄 If Americans listed and retrain the need to speak. Maybe DJT wouldn’t hover all of us.

It is day that we hold irreverence, birth of our countries in terms of blood spilt, the day our nations became fully fledged adults.

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This is a very whitewashed version of this history of ANZAC and what ANZAC means and how it came about!

No not Independence Day more like Memorial Day champ we have Australia Day on jan 26

ANZACS - Australians + New Zealanders + Russians = 'Lest We Forget'

Read "Gallipoli" by author Peter Fitzsimons