Explain The Key Features Of The Anzaac Legend

“No, Dad. You started it… when you dragged me by the hand through mobs of them like this – just exactly like this. That’s all I ever saw on Anzac Day, every year, year after year, a screaming tribe of great, stupid, drunken no-hopers.” (page 95)

The Gallipoli campaign had a major effect on Australia’s identity and the way the rest of the world saw Australia as a country. The Gallipoli campaign was a trial to test their nationhood. The campaign shown many qualities of the Australian soldiers including bravery, strength, courage, endurance and mateship. All of these qualities reflect on the nation that the troops came from. The involvement of Gallipoli was a major event that has shaped our country’s reputation and the sacrifices made by so many Australians shows the fortitude that many men had to fight for their nation.

The Anzac legend is still relevant in today’s society as it reminds Australians and New Zealands of the sacrifice they made to protect our country and let us live in freedom. The legend defines our national identity and helps shape our national reputation so that other countries can look at us as and think of us as a country who are determined, brave, resilient and helps our mates when they are in trouble. Almost a whole generation of young men was lost and they deserved to be remembered. The soldiers continued to fight during challenging times and when they felt as though it was too hard and should give up. They slept in wet and dirty clothes and barely had enough food to survive. Australia wouldn’t be Australia without the legend of the soldiers who sacrificed themselves for us.

The landing at Anzac cove, Gallipoli, is a significant part in the history of our identity in the war and the world. I

The Anzac legend began during the Gallipoli campaign where thousands of Australian and New Zealand soldiers died fighting the Turkish. On the 25th April in the year 1915 Australia and New Zealand troops landed on Gallipoli. Before WW1 Australia had struggled to find a unique identity which would separate it from its English roots. Having recently separated from England and becoming an independent nation Australia and its peoples were still searching for a national identity when WW1 began. WW1 was the first instance were Australia fielded its own national army after separating from England. This allowed Australian values, beliefs, and popular culture to truly start to grow. The Qualities which the Australian

As Australians, we all know of the Gallipoli Campaign, and to a certain extent the events that occurred, although there are still many uncertainties surrounding it. To properly commemorate the Campaign, first we must understand what really occurred on those shores, years go.

The mateship of Archy and Frank is based on the sportsmanship culture of Western Australia, which was a popular recruitment method for young men that joined ANZAC and, eventually, fought in the Gallipoli Campaign. Archy is a the blindly loyal nationalist that relies on his running skills to put peer pressure on Frank to join ANZAC. Frank initially declines, but the sportsmanship culture encourages a deep bond with a fellow short-distance runner in the effort to maintain mateship. However, there were many different soldiers from a wide variety of backgrounds, such as lower class backgrounds, which define a different and less romantic view of sportsmanship that Weir presents in this film. In reality, man men from the lower working classes joined ANZAC as a way to avoid poverty and low wage work. Archy and Frank’s relationship is a heroic and romantic view of the Gallipoli Campaign, yet it does show the horror and carnage of “bloody murder” of young men, such as Archy, that died in this failed attack against the Turkish Army. In this manner, the film Gallipoli provides insight into some aspects of mateship and sportsmanship between Archy and frank that was certainly valid, but it does not provide a comprehensive and realistic understanding of the multiple perspectives of class status and identity that defined enlistment in ANZAC in WWI.

July 28th, 1914 World War 1 had officially started and ended on November 11, 1918, but it wasn’t until April 25th, 1915 when the ANZAC legend was born and the legend is still alive to this day. The name ANZAC was given to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corp who fought in World War 1. Even though the ANZAC legend is remembered every year on ANZAC day some people believe the legend is a myth. But evidence collected by arrange of different source states that the legend accurately portrays the qualities of Australia’s and New Zealand World War 1 soldiers. The ANZAC legend accurately portrays the ways the ANZAC acted and fought in World War 1.

A plethora of reasons exist to which why the accounts are both different and similar. ANZAC troops were outnumbered in all instances because they were fighting the same opponent, similar weaponry was employed as all ANZAC troops were issued an identical set of weapons, the nature of the conflict reflected all of the battles as the same strategies were used, terrain similarities occurred because they were all situated in the same vicinity, all accounts entered via ship as no other route existed, courage, fearlessness and audacity were all common behaviours for the ANZACs as they all came from more or less the same background in Australia and those characteristics were frequent and finally, heavy casualties, for the same reason as nature of the operation, occurred due to the recklessness of the whole operation. The

The first ANZAC landing at the Gallipoli Peninsula on 1915 is said to be the most significant event in the whole campaign. This essay explores other events that need more recognition. Many events such as; Lone Pine, The Nek and The Truce are equally if not more important than the landing itself and need to be acknowledged.

Anzacs went through some mateships and sacrifices that made the Anzac legend including other things that they did. To simply sum what the Anzac Legend is, its helping mates out, sacrificing yourself for your mate when you know they would do the same is the situationa was reserved. never giving up and this is what the Anzacs did by showing bravery and honesty for a 8 month long war with all the messednu[ situation and after failing, turning impossible to possible still showing the world that the Anzac spirit was made by the peole sacrificing thei life for family nd mate and doing what they can even during those tugh situation invade and take possesition of turkey starting with Gallipoli, take control of a landalong a trenched water called

The significance of the Gallipoli campaign was the Anzac spirit and the extreme sacrifice that the men had faced, but for what?

The assault troops - The ANZAC’S - were intended to land at Cape Tepe, but as a consequence of strong ocean currents, faulty navigation, communication errors and poor visibility, the ANZAC’s landed 1.6 kilometers North of their intended destination. In the darkness, the assault formations became mixed, as the men were surrounded by steep, high, cliff faces and incessant Ottoman Turkish machine-gun fire, instead of a flat land assault.

The birth of the ANZAC legend dates back to the 25th of April, 1915 where the newly federated Australia took part in one of the first international events as Australians. [1] The theory suggests that the Australian and New Zealander soldiers helped build the national identity of their countries on international level. [2] They established Australia’s name as a new nation through the qualities of the soldiers which include endurance, courage, ingenuity, good humour, larrikinism, and mateship. Today every year on the 25th of April we celebrate ‘ANZAC Day’ as part of commemorating the Australians and New Zealanders who served and lost their lives in wars, conflicts, other operations to bring

The Anzacs, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, forged Australia’s national identity when on 25 April 1915, they sacrificed their lives gallantly in Gallipoli (Black 1990:33). Many of the values and virtues characteristic of this troop, are embodied in the sacredness of Australia’s civil religion (eds. Robbins & Robertson 1987:244). Mateship, egalitarian individualism, and hostility to formal bureaucracy and hierarchy are hallmark of the beliefs the nation holds sacred, in conjunction with elaborate war memorials that serve as architectural reminders, totems, of comradeship, ruggedness and sacrifice (eds. Robbins & Robertson 1987:244). RSL, Returned Servicemen’s League, clubs established throughout the nation are temples where fellowship and communion are enjoyed and tradition is perpetuated through the transmission of legend and folklore (Alpert 1993:200-1; eds. Robbins & Robertson 1987:244). The establishment of Australia’s civil religion was solidified when on 20 October 1916, the War Precautions Act was proclaimed, forbidding the use of the word Anzac in the profane and penalising any person who did so with a fine of one hundred pounds or six months imprisonment (Seal 2007:136-7). Enshrining the term ‘Anzac’ in law and imbuing it with a special status, further established it as sacred, resulting in Anzac Day being accepted in 1930 as a