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Specifically, the date marks the anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand soldiers – the Anzacs – on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915 during WWI. On that day, thousands of young men, far from their homes, stormed the beaches on the Gallipoli Peninsula in what is now Turkey. The aim of the Anzacs, together with other allied troops, was to capture the Dardanelles and open a sea route to the Bosphorus and the Black Sea. At the end of the campaign, Gallipoli was still held by its Ottoman Turkish defenders. On the day of the Gallipoli landing, 153 New Zealand soldiers were killed and many more wounded. Over the eight months of fighting at Gallipoli, 2,779 New Zealanders were killed and 5,212 wounded, amounting to about 57 percent of the New Zealanders at Gallipoli. In addition, at least 87,000 Ottoman Turks and 8,500 Australian soldiers died during this push.
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The fighting may have ended in military defeat, but for many New Zealanders, both then and since, the Gallipoli landings signalled that New Zealand was becoming a distinct nation, even as it fought on the other side of the world in the name of the British Empire.
After WWI, returned soldiers sought the comradeship they had felt in those quiet, peaceful moments before dawn. A dawn vigil, recalling the wartime front line practice of the dawn ‘standto’, became the basis of a form of commemoration after the war. Anzac Day was first observed in New Zealand in 1916. The day has gone through many changes since. The ceremonies that are held at war memorials up and down New Zealand, and in places overseas where New Zealanders gather, are modelled on a military funeral. They are rich in tradition and ritual. The Australian and New Zealand Governments also jointly conduct the Anzac Day Gallipoli Dawn Service on 25 April each year at a site in Gallipoli itself. This service takes place with the permission and support of the host nation, the Republic of Turkey.
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Anzac Day is observed on 25 April each year. In general, it commemorates New Zealanders and Australians killed in war but also honours all returned and serving Servicemen and Servicewomen.
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