Lest we forget

I have a lot of bits and pieces to tell you about, but today is not the day for such frivolity.  Today is the day Australians and New Zealanders commemorate ANZAC Day.  ANZAC stands for Australian & New Zealand Army Corps.

Today marks the anniversary of the first major military action by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War when they set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula at dawn on 25 April 1915.  By the end of 1915 over 8,000 Australian soldiers had been killed.

So instead of reading my blog today, please visit the ANZAC site and read all about those brave men who gave their lives for us and other service personnel since then who have, and continue to, put themselves in harms way.

 

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them".*

 

 

* extract from The Fallen by Laurence Binyon