How the events at Gallipoli created the anzac spirit.
Anzac day is on April 25; a day set aside to honour and keep in mind those who have fought to show the world what we could do as a new country and gave our ‘mother country’, Britain a helping hand. Also to commemorate the lives lost in the 8 month period spent by ANZAC forces on the Gallipoli Peninsula. 25 April 1915, the day Australians and New Zealanders landed at Gallipoli and the beginning of the Anzac legend.
The landing at dawn was written in history, as the first time Australian troops went into action as their own independent army. They saw that day as not very lucky, given that there was a navigational error where they landed 2km north of their planned target; on a part of the coast where it