Thousands of Australians and New Zealanders took part in the celebration of the Day of Veterans and the memory of those killed in wars and military conflicts - the so-called ANZAK Day, named after the Australian-New Zealand army corps formed during the First World War.
On the morning of April 25, memorial services were held across the country, and during the day - military parades and processions of veterans. Veterans passed along the central streets of the city together with their children and grandchildren. Memorable events were held on the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli. 102 years ago, at dawn, ANZAC troops landed here, commemorating the entry of Australia and New Zealand into the First World War. The ceremony on the shore of the Dardanelles was attended by the head of the Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop and the Minister of Justice of New Zealand Amy Adams.
In total, on the battlefields of the First World War, over 60,000 volunteers from Australia and New Zealand. ANZAC Day was officially celebrated for the first time in 1916. At first on this day, veterans and dead were honored only in the First World War, but after the end of World War II on April 25 in Australia and New Zealand they remember all their citizens who fought in all military conflicts.
"Dardanellian venture". 90 years ago, the Entente troops suffered one of the most sensitive defeats in the First World War.