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.

As the shape of the new front line firmed, General Hamilton planned one further attack to try to link the Suvla landing to Anzac.

Once the battles of 21 August had finished, the front lines at Suvla and Anzac remained static for the remainder of the campaign.

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 Anzac Mounted Division was to deploy for the attack from the north, with the 2nd Light Horse Brigade on a front extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the Gaza to Jebalieh road, the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade covering the front from the Gaza to Jebalieh road to the top of the ridge running north east, while the Lincolnshire Yeomanry and Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, of 22nd Mounted Yeomanry Brigade, took over the front from the right of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade to the track leading to Beit Durdis.

* Essendon and Carlton contested a once-off match on Anzac Day in 1975 ( which Essendon won ) in front of a crowd of 77, 770.

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.

His familiarity with the subjects of the stories in his An Anzac Muster, privately printed in 1921, suggests that he had personal experience at the front, but there appears to be no evidence to show that he belonged to any of the fighting forces.

I Anzac Corps suffered approximately 6, 300 casualties and was so depleted that they had to be taken off the front for two months.

In August, Robinson was sent to Anzac Cove as a naval liaison officer and on his second day there, was badly wounded near the front line, forcing his evacuation to England, where King George V presented him with his medal at Buckingham Palace.

The firing line that was established on the first day would largely define the front line of the Anzac battlefield for the remaining eight months of the campaign.

* 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.

* 1916 – Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.

Anzac Day celebrations take place on 25 April, the day the Anzac troops landed at what is known as Anzac Cove.

Attendance at the Anzac Day dawn service at Gallipoli has become popular since the 75th anniversary.

Until 1999, the Gallipoli dawn service was held at the Ari Burnu war cemetery at Anzac Cove, but the growing numbers of attendees resulted in the construction of a more spacious site on North Beach, Gallipoli, known as the " Anzac Commemorative Site ".

# Public holiday, a day decreed by government as a day when the bulk of the population is not normally expected to be at work, such as Australia Day, Anzac Day, bank holidays or Christmas Day.

* April 25 – WWI: Start of the Gallipoli Campaign ( lasting until January 1916 ): Landing at Anzac Cove by Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and landing at Cape Helles by British and French troops to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire.

The Canadian Corps relieved II Anzac Corps on 18 October from their positions along the valley between Gravenstafel Ridge and the heights at Passchendaele.

Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, originally commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( ANZAC ) who fought at Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

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.

Pennies can often be observed being used at games on Anzac Day, as they are brought out specifically for this purpose each year.

Today Binyon's most famous poem, For the Fallen, is often recited at Remembrance Sunday services in the UK, and an integral part of Anzac Day services in Australia and New Zealand, and 11 November Remembrance Day services in Canada.

On 25 Apr 1916, the first anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli, Monash and his men solemnly observed Anzac Day in camp at the Suez Canal.

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.

The 2nd Battalion landed at Anzac Cove on Anzac Day.

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.

The Battle of Gallipoli and specifically Anzac Cove are featured prominently in the novel " Redemption " by Leon Uris.

Charles Bean ( The Story of Anzac: From the Outbreak of War to the End of the First Phase of the Gallipoli Campaign 4 May 1915, 1921 ) Geoffrey Blainey ( The Tyranny of Distance, 1966 ), Robert Hughes ( The Fatal Shore, 1987 ), Manning Clark ( A History of Australia, 1962 – 87 ), and Marcia Langton ( First Australians, 2008 ) are authors of important Australian histories.

Fund raising for a memorial began on 25 April 1916, the first anniversary of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( ANZAC ) landing at Anzac Cove for the Battle of Gallipoli.

The climax of the movie occurs on the Anzac battlefield at Gallipoli and depicts the futile attack at the Battle of the Nek on 7 August 1915.

The 13th Division had landed at Anzac on the Gallipoli peninsula in July 1915 in preparation for the August Offensive that was launched on 6 August.

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 Nek " was a narrow stretch of ridge in the Anzac battlefield on the Gallipoli peninsula.

The division was shipped to Egypt prior to serving in the Battle of Gallipoli where it fought on both the Anzac and Helles battlefields.

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 Battle of Gallipoli had raged on two fronts, Anzac and Helles, for three months since the invasion of 25 April 1915.

When the rest of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps departed for Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, the mounted brigades remained in Egypt-the Gallipoli Peninsula being unsuited to mounted operations.

The Anzac Mounted Division ( officially known as the Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division ) was a mounted infantry division formed in March 1916 in Egypt during World War I following the Battle of Gallipoli when the Australian and New Zealand regiments returned from fighting in a dismounted role.

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

The Anzac Mounted Division remained near El Dameita until 16: 00 and the 54th ( East Anglian ) Division remained near Sheikh Abbas engaging the advancing Ottoman units from Beersheba.

The mobile component remained the Desert Column which comprised the Anzac Mounted Division and the Imperial Mounted Division plus the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade.

In that period the frontline of the Anzac battlefield remained little changed from the ground captured on the first day of the landing, a space less than three-quarters of a square mile ( 2 km² ) in size — home to over 20, 000 men.

A gap remained in the Anzac perimeter at the head of Monash Valley between the New Zealanders on the left along Walker's Ridge and Russell's Top and the Australian 4th Brigade holding the Posts along the second ridge ( Quinn's, Courtney's and Steele's ).

The brigade remained in Egypt and, combined with the 1st and 2nd Australian Light Horse Brigades, made up the Anzac Mounted Division which served through the Sinai and Palestine campaign.

Bean landed at Anzac Cove at 10am on 25 April 1915, a few hours after the first troops had landed and he remained on the peninsula for most of the campaign, enduring the same squalid conditions suffered by the soldiers.

By early April 1917, three German-held outpost villages remained between the area to the south of the I Anzac Corps position and the Hindenburg Line.

By early April 1917, there remained three German-held outpost villages — Boursies, Demicourt and Hermies — between the area to the south of the I Anzac Corps position and the Hindenburg Line.