24/04/2024
On 25 April 1915 Australian soldiers landed at what is now called Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
For the vast majority of the 16,000 Australians and New Zealanders who landed on that day, it was their first experience of combat. By that evening, 2,000 of them had been killed or wounded.
Gallipoli campaign was a military failure but the characteristics that the Anzacs displayed throughout the campaign β bravery, ingenuity, endurance and mateship β have come to be celebrated as defining characteristics of the Australian personality.
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