Biscuits issued to soldiers by the Army, referred to as " Anzac tiles " or " Anzac wafers ", differ from the popular Anzac biscuit.

** The frigates HMAS Anzac and HMAS Darwin, which were already on-station as part of the Multinational Interception Force enforcing economic sanctions against Iraq before the invasion plan was entered into.

Most of the ships of the Royal Australian Navy were also part of the fleet from 1943 to 1945 as part of Task Force 74 ( formerly the Anzac Squadron ).

Some battalions of the division were landed at Anzac and fought at Chunuk Bair.

Initially in reserve to the main breakout from Anzac by units of the New Zealand and Australian Division, the 38th and 39th Brigades were sent in as reinforcements as the attack stalled.

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.

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.

The Anzac Mounted Division's lines of communication were now fully extended, and the difficulties of supplying the mounted troops from Romani made it impossible for the British Empire mounted force to consider any further advance at that time.

It connected the Anzac trenches on the ridge known as " Russell's Top " to the knoll called " Baby 700 " on which the Ottoman defenders were entrenched.

In addition to the main advance north out of the Anzac perimeter, a number of supporting attacks were planned from the existing trench positions.

Shortly afterwards, on 28 April, four battalions were sent to Anzac to reinforce the hard-pressed Australian and New Zealand troops.

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.

To keep up the supply, Australians put about 50 soldiers to work at Anzac Cove manufacturing makeshift grenades out of empty jam tins: over 1, 000 were sent up to the 1st Infantry Brigade late on 7 August.

The Ottomans anticipated that the offensive would involve a breakout from Anzac but were unsure whether it would be north ( towards Suvla ) or south ( towards Gaba Tepe ).

On the morning following the breakout, a number of other attacks were planned within the old Anzac perimeter.

They succeeded in driving the Ottomans off the hill but were then caught in further naval gunfire from friendly monitors or from an artillery battery at Anzac.

The mounted troops were parcelled out so that only two brigades of the Anzac Mounted Division remained under Chauvel's command.

Two divisions of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stopford's IX Corps were landed at Suvla on the night of 6 August while a simultaneous breakout was made from the long-stagnant Anzac sector to the south of Suvla.

Similar counter-attacks were repulsed at the Anzac landing on 2 May so that General William Birdwood, commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps deemed his front sufficiently secure to enable two brigades to be moved to Helles for the next assault on Krithia.

The second column consisting of Anzac Mounted Division's divisional headquarters, Signal Squadron, Field Artillery and 2nd Light Horse Brigade ( divisional reserve ) arrived south west of Deir el Belah, when the 2nd Light Horse Brigade and the artillery were ordered to water and bivouac at Deir el Belah.

The Anzac, Imperial Mounted and the 54th ( East Anglian ) Divisions ' orders were handed to divisional commanders at 17: 00.

The Anzac Mounted Division headquarters were established at Beit Durdis and by 10: 10 communications were established with Desert Column, Imperial Mounted Division and the 2nd Light Horse Brigade by cable.

Nor were there any reports half an hour later when, at 14: 00 Lieutenant General Chetwode placed Chauvel in command of both mounted divisions for the remainder of the operations, and ordered the whole of the Anzac Mounted Division to attack Gaza from the north.

Until the Anzac Mounted Division was clear of the battlefield ; at about midnight, the advancing Ottoman reinforcements were held off by the Imperial Mounted Division, with the assistance of the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade and armoured motor car patrols.

The paper Poppies for Armistice that year arrived by ship too late for 11 November 1921, so an RSA branch distributed them at the next commemoration date ( 25 April 1922, which happened to be Anzac Day ) and that date stuck as the new Poppy Day in New Zealand.

The Germans overran the forward Anzac defences and a mêlée developed from which the Anzacs emerged victorious.

Games, to which a blind eye was cast, became a regular part of Anzac Day celebrations for returned soldiers.

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.

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.

The next day, the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade and the 2nd Light Horse Brigade of the Australian Major General Henry G. Chauvel's Anzac Mounted Division which had served dismounted during the Gallipoli Campaign, reoccupied the Katia area unopposed.

The light horse had gradually withdrawn back until, at about 11: 00, the main German and Ottoman attack was stopped by well directed fire from the Royal Horse Artillery batteries of the Anzac Mounted Division and by light horse rifle and machine gun fire, to which the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division contributed considerable firepower.

* 52nd ( Lowland ) Division to move in close support of Anzac Mounted Division's left flank towards Mount Meredith and to prepare for a general advance towards Abu Hamra which was not to be undertaken until further orders from Lawrence at No. 3 Section Headquarters.

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.

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.

This force was defeated in August at the Battle of Romani, after which the Anzac Mounted Division, also known as the A.

The Australian 4th Brigade, which landed last, was sent to fill the gap between the left and right flanks of the Anzac perimeter, which required holding positions across the head of Monash Valley.

On Anzac Day, after the dawn service, Australian visitors congregate at the Lone Pine cemetery which now stands on the site for a memorial service to remember all their countrymen who fought and died at Gallipoli.

The peak was known to the British as " Hill 971 " and they mistakenly applied the name for a lesser ridge to the main range ( Sarı Bayır, meaning " Yellow Slope ", which ended at the imposing bluff above Anzac Cove known as " The Sphinx ").

Ten of these defended the existing battlefields ( six at Helles, which had seen the bulk of the early fighting, and four at Anzac ).

The immediate operational commander was Australian Lieutenant-General Thomas Blamey with his I Australian Corps headquarters, which was briefly renamed Anzac Corps.

On the extreme left, the British ran into Gully Ravine which was as wild and confusing as the ground at Anzac Cove.

Upon the formation of the Australian Corps in December 1917, which contained all five Australian divisions, II Anzac was reformed as the British XXII Corps.

The Australian Light Horsemen, the New Zealand mounted riflemen, of the Anzac Mounted Division ( Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division ) with the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade, the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade and a light car patrol, successfully assaulted El Magruntein, during a day-long attack in which the Ottoman position was encircled and finally captured in the late afternoon.

With the British railhead about away, on 23 December 1916 the Anzac Mounted Division less the 2nd Light Horse Brigade but with the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade attached, during a day-long battle, won a victory at the Battle of Magdhaba which secured the British occupation of El Arish on the Mediterranean Sea.

While the 1st Light Horse and the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigades rode to a position from which to attack from the south, east and north, the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade moved off by the same route as the Anzac Mounted Division and Imperial Camel Corps Brigade.