FIRST ANZAC DAY
n 25 April 1915, 16,000 Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) soldiers landed at what’s now called Anzac Cove, on Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula. About 2000 were killed or wounded on that day alone. Weeks later, Australian newspapers published a flattering account of the landing by British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett and our soldiers’ deeds at Gallipoli came to be seen as a rite of passage for our
