Monday, April 25, 2011

ANZAC DAY APRIL 25TH

 

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April 25th for Australians and New Zealanders is the day that remembrance and honour to the many soldiers from these two nations is made. April 25th historically is the day that Australian and New Zealand forces landed on the shores of Gallipoli in the Great World War 1914-1919. These shores are now known as Anzac Cove.

The Anzac spirit or Anzac legend is a concept which suggests that Australian and New Zealand soldiers shared characteristics and qualities believed to have been shown on the battlefield in World War I. These qualities cluster around several ideas, including endurance, courage, ingenuity, good humour, larrikinism, and mateship. The soldiers are perceived to have been innocent and fit, stoical and laconic, irreverent in the face of authority, naturally egalitarian and disdainful of British class differences.

The Anzac spirit also tends to capture the idea of an Australian and New Zealand "national character", with the Gallipoli Campaign often described as being the moment of birth of the nationhood of both Australia and New Zealand.

The concept was first expressed in the reporting of the landing at Anzac Cove by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett; as well as later on and much more extensively by Charles Bean. It is regarded as an Australian legend, although its critics refer to it as the Anzac myth.

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1 comment:

  1. Should be the great war of 1914-1918 not 1919. Cheers mate!

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