A common tradition amongst the people of Australia and New Zealand is to bake Anzac biscuits to remember the soldiers who died fighting for " King and country ".

Today, Anzac biscuits are manufactured commercially for retail sale.

Today, Anzac biscuits are manufactured commercially for retail sale.

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His main achievements include ; becoming a teacher's aid directly after leaving college, building a house for homeless, crippled children in America, creating a programme of forced extinction for dionsaurs, painting bikes red for friends and eating Anzac fighting biscuits with friends.

Some New Zealand politicians and commentators, such as Paul Holmes, have felt that Waitangi Day is too controversial to be a national day and have sought to replace it with Anzac Day.

The New Zealanders were to " operate vigorously so as to cut off the enemy, who appears to have got round the right of the Anzac Mounted Division.

Capturing this hill along with Scimitar Hill would have allowed the Anzac and Suvla landings to be securely linked.

Three ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Anzac, after the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( ANZAC ).

Five battle honours have been awarded to ships named HMAS Anzac:

Anzac bridge cable2. JPG | The Bridges stay cables were plagued by vibrations which have since been resolved by the addition of thin stabilizing cables ( pictured ) between the stay cables.

In the Anzac Day match between Essendon and Collingwood at the MCG, Long claimed to have been racially taunted by Collingwood's ruckman, Damian Monkhorst.

Their campaign to have the Sydney Mardi Gras banned because of, as he puts it, " the lifestyle and perversion that it promotes " saw opposition from the RSL as one of their campaign Youtube videos, which featured Madden, labelled a " battle cry ", calls upon " 10, 000 warriors " to rally against the event and shows Madden in front of the Anzac War Memorial in Hyde Park inviting viewers to become " lions " and join him.

Recent plans to extend the current light rail network from Central Station to La Perouse via Anzac Parade have been put on hold.

Although this history is short when compared to that of many other nations, Australia has been involved in numerous conflicts and wars, and war and military service have been significant influences on Australian society and national identity, including the Anzac spirit.

War and military service have been defining influences in Australian history, while a major part of the national identity has been built on an idealised conception of the Australian experience of war and of soldiering, known as the Anzac spirit.

Today, the date of the initial landings, 25 April, is known as Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand and every year thousands of people gather at memorials in both nations, and indeed in Turkey, to honour the bravery and sacrifice of the original Anzacs, and of all those who have subsequently lost their lives in war.

This said, some Australians have forgotten the NZ in Anzac stands for New Zealand.

Anzac tiles and wafers were hard tack, a bread substitute, which had a long shelf life and was very hard.

Secondly, the arrival of the new British commander, Chetwode and his staff and their vital forward planning to organise the necessary logistical support, for an immediate long range attack by the Anzac Mounted Division.

In the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park, a portable tribune with an 11, 000-person capacity has been built in the Anzac Cove and Lone Pine Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery Lone Pine Memorial region.

Two-up has also been legalised on Anzac Day, when it is played in Returned Servicemen's Leagues ( RSL ) clubs and hotels.

An example of the artificial Flanders poppy which has been distributed by the millions throughout New Zealand by the RSA for Anzac Day activities and other days of remembrance.

After this day of fierce fighting, which has been described as the hardest-fought action of the whole Sinai campaign, the Anzac Mounted Division's advance was effectively stopped.

For the three months since the 25 April landings, the Anzac beachhead had been a stalemate.

At the time of the landing at Anzac Cove, the intention had been to complete the NZ & Australian Division with the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade, commanded by Major General Vaughn Cox, however as the situation at the Helles landing deteriorated, General Sir Ian Hamilton directed Cox's brigade there to support the British 29th Division.

At around 7: 00 a. m. on the first day of the Australian and New Zealand landings at Anzac Cove, 25 April 1915, elements of the Australian force had pushed through to Lone Pine in an effort to destroy a Turkish artillery battery that had been firing down upon the landing beach.

In the Anzac sector, Hill 60 had been unoccupied on the morning of 7 August when Australian scouts passed across it however the Ottomans swiftly occupied and fortified it.

While the Ottoman army positions at Gaza had been reconnoitred and photographed from the air, it was still necessary for the Anzac and Imperial Mounted Division's staffs and the Commander Royal Artillery ( CRA ) to carry out reconnaissances of the Wadi Ghuzzeh in person.

Birdwood had already been created a Baronet, of Anzac and Totnes, on 6 October 1919. the titles are held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1962.

Over the years, Anzac Cove beach has been degraded by erosion, and the construction of the coast road from Gaba Tepe to Suvla, originally started by Australian engineers just prior to the evacuation of Anzac in December 1915, resulted in the beach being further reduced and bounded by a steep earth embankment.

The brigade had initially been intended to be part of the New Zealand and Australian Division in the landing at Anzac Cove but instead was directed to assist at Cape Helles where the situation was deteriorating since the assault on 25 April.

Avoca has a horse racing club, the Avoca Shire Turf Club, which has just been awarded a third race meeting in December to augment the two well established meetings a year ; the ANZAC Races on Anzac Day every year and The Avoca Cup meeting in October.

A long-standing plan to break out of the Anzac bridgehead was adopted ; it had first been proposed on 30 May by the commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, Lieutenant-General William Birdwood.

The combination of the name Anzac and the recipe now associated with it first appeared in the 9th edition of St Andrew's Cookery Book ( Dunedin, 1921 ) under the name " Anzac Crispies ".

Anzac Day, 25 April is another day strongly associated with Australian nationhood, however it more particularly commemorates Australians who fought in wars and is named to honour the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who landed at Gallipoli, on that same day in 1915, during the First World War.

* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

In January 1917 the Second Army ( II Anzac, IX, X and VIII corps ) held the line in Flanders from Laventie to Boesinghe, with 11 divisions and up to two in reserve.

It is traditionally played on Anzac Day in pubs and clubs throughout Australia, in part to mark a shared experience with Diggers through the ages.

Mesen is twinned with Featherston in New Zealand in part due to the location of the New Zealand World War I Memorial, which has annual Anzac Day commemorations on 25 April.

Stationed at Kantara were infantry in the 42nd Division, an infantry brigade of the 53rd ( Welsh ) Division with 36 guns and the 3rd Light Horse Brigade, detached from the Anzac Mounted Division.

* Anzac Mounted Division to press forward with its right on the Hod el Enna and its left in close touch with the infantry from the 156th ( Scottish Rifles ) Brigade, 52nd ( Lowland ) Division, advancing on the line Katib Gannit to Mount Meredith.

* 3rd Light Horse Brigade to move towards Bir el Nuss and attack Hod el Enna from the south keeping in close touch with the Anzac Mounted Division.

* 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade, under orders of 42nd Infantry Division to assist the 3rd Light Horse Brigade's link with the Anzac Mounted Division's right.

Chauvel deployed the Anzac Mounted Division for the advance, with the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade in the centre following the telegraph line.

In August an offensive ( which later became known as the Battle of Sari Bair ) was intended to break the deadlock by capturing the high ground of the Sari Bair range, and linking the Anzac front with a new landing to the north at Suvla.

One of the final Operation Slipper rotations was in November 2002 with HMA Ships Anzac and Darwin.

Chetwode reported that he had arranged a special camel convoy with rations and horse feed to arrive at El Arish at 16: 30 that day, with a view to the Anzac Mounted Division advancing on Magdhaba, away.

Chauvel's Force for the attack on Magdhaba, consisted of three brigades of the Anzac Mounted Division ; 1st Light Horse Brigade ( 1st, 2nd and 3rd Light Horse Regiments ), the 3rd Light Horse Brigade ( 8th, 9th and 10th Light Horse Regiments ), the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade ( Auckland, Canterbury and Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiments ), together with three battalions from the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade in place of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade.

At 23: 30 the Anzac Mounted Division's headquarters, left Magdhaba with an escort and arrived in El Arish at 04: 10 on 24 December 1916.

The Lone Pine battlefield, named for a solitary Turkish Pine that stood there at the start of the fighting, was situated near the centre of the eastern line of the Australian and New Zealand trenches around Anzac Cove on a rise known as " 400 Plateau " that joined " Bolton's Ridge " to the south with the ridge along the east side of " Monash Valley " to the north.

Being towards the southern end of the area around Anzac Cove, the terrain in the Lone Pine region was comparatively gentle and the opposing trenches were separated some distance with a flat no-man's land intervening.