Assessment task — Our unique communities: Anzac Day sources

Anzac Day commemoration sources

Source 1Significant event: The Gallipoli campaign

On 25 April 1915 Australian and New Zealand soldiers landed at a place now called Anzac Cove on the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula to fight against the Turkish army. They were faced with a horrible situation. The beach where they landed was very narrow and they were fired on from the cliffs above. Turkish gunfire killed many of them before they even landed. They spent eight months in dreadful conditions, facing a determined enemy and suffering heavy casualties. In spite of this, they fought bravely and refused to give in. They were finally withdrawn in December but left a memory among Australians of courage and determination.

Source image: Stores, limbers and soldiers on ANZAC Beach at ANZAC Cove Australian War Memorial, ID number A03050 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/A03050/

Source 2Veterans reflect on the meaning of Anzac Day — Older war veteran (World War II)

‘It’s part of our history, our heritage.’ (i)

‘Australia was part of the British Empire, and I fought in World War II under the British flag.’ (i)

‘I think it’s a wonderful day for people to remember those who were unfortunate enough

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in many cases to have to go to a war.’ (ii)

War memorial, Anzac Day Dawn service, Gippsland 2009

Source:(i) ABC Open (20 July 2015), ‘Veterans reflect on the meaning of Anzac Day’, ABC Splash http://abcspla.sh/m/1264555 CC BY-SA 4.0

creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/(ii)ABC Open (20 July 2015), ‘Australians recognise past sacrifices on Anzac Day’, ABC Splash http://abcspla.sh/m/1264533 CC BY-SA

4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/Source image ANZAC Day in Gippsland 2009 © Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Defence https://images.defence.gov.au/20090425ptf8227810_0056.jpg CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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Source 3Anzac Day Dawn Service in Villers-Bretonneux, France

The town of Villers-Bretonneux in France was saved by Australian soldiers in World War I. Anzac Day ceremonies are conducted in this French town every year to remember the brave Australian soldiers who fought to keep the people of the town safe.

Travers, Graeme 2008, Villers Bretonneux Anzac Day 2008 Dawn Service http:// commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anzac_Day_080425_(66).jpg CC BY-SA 3.0

Source 4Prime Minister’s Address

“Today we remember the 50,000 Australians who served in the Gallipoli campaign. And the more than 26,000 who fell or were wounded here. We remember, too, the sons of New Zealand who died and suffered. And let us not forget the sons of Britain, France, India, Newfoundland [Canada] and of course Turkey, who died in their countless thousands on this peninsula.”Source: Prime Minister The Hon John Howard MP, Address at Anzac Day Dawn Service, Gallipoli, 2005 http://pmtranscripts.dpmc.gov.au/release/transcript-21719 CC BY 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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