Anzac Day Becomes A Sacred Holiday

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Anzac Day is celebrated on 25th of April. The day of commemorating all the New Zealanders killed in the war, also to honour the returned service men and women.
Every year New Zealand remembers the anniversary of the Gallipoli landing. The day when thousands of men, far from home and their families, arrived at Gallipoli Peninsula in what is now Turkey. New Zealand’s journey to Gallipoli began with the outbreak of war between the United Kingdom and Germany in August 1914. A year later, British authorities send Australian and New Zealand forces to capture the Dardanelles, the gateway to Bosporus and the Black Sea
New Zealand fought alongside Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, India and Newfoundland against Ottoman forces fighting to protect their homeland, for eight long months. The Gallipoli Peninsula dominates a waterway, the Dardanelles. By opening the Dardanelles, the Allies hoped to threaten the Ottoman capital, Constantinople (now Istanbul) and knock the Turks out of the war.
By the time the campaign ended, more than 130,000 men had died: at least 87,000 Ottoman soldiers and 44,000 Allied soldiers, including more than 8700 Australians. There were 2779 dead New Zealanders, which was about a fifth of all those who had landed on the peninsula.
The date April the 25th, was officially named Anzac Day in 1916. But the status of Anzac day wasn’t clear until the 1920’s. During the twenties, ANZAC Day became established as a national
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