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Travel holiday shop is the specialist Anzac Tours Turkey operator based directly in the UK. As a UK enabled Travel Company we have now been running Anzac Tours to Gallipoli for the last 10 years, for 2009 we have introduced a range of budget priced tours to suit the price conscious traveller but still providing only premium 3 star hotels first class air-conditioned buses and no hostels or camping sites. For the discerning customer this year sees our new range of “Gold Class Tours” that provide you with 5 star luxury hotels and Anzac Barbecue. Please note we only have bookings for a limited number of spaces on our Anzac tours each year so we always advise our customers to make early bookings, easy online ticketless bookings that offer discounts directly to all our customers, its never been easier to arrange your 2008 Anzac Tour with a choice of budgets to suit everyone, if you require any information or would like us to make your booking just call us on 0141 4163137; calling from outside the UK then dail 0044 1414163137 or just click here to go directly to our main site.
What is Anzac Day Gallipoli Turkey 25 April 1915?
anzac day service, Anzac Day - 25 April - is probably Australia's most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as Anzacs, and the pride they soon took in that name endures to this day.
Anzac Australia day;
ANZAC is the acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, the formation created in December 1914 by grouping the Australian Imperial Force and New Zealand Expeditionary Force stationed in Egypt under the command of Lieutenant-General William Birdwood. Initially the term 'Australasian Corps' had been mooted for this force, but there was a reluctance among both Australians and New Zealanders to lose their separate identities completely.
A Brief History on the Anzacs
When Great Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914 there was never any doubt which way Australia would go. As a dominion she was automatically and legally committed; but in any case Australian sentiment was overwhelmingly pro-British, and Andrew Fisher spoke for the whole country when he promised to support her 'to our last man and our last shilling"
Australia's first acts of war were to destroy German wireless stations at Rabaul, Yap and New Guinea, and to occupy German New Guinea and nearby islands including New Britain, New Ireland and Bouganville. Resistance was weak and casualties were few. Meanwhile Brigadier-General W.T. Bridges had begun organising a volunteer army for overseas service, to be known as the Australian Imperial Force and now famous in history simply as A.I.F.It was joined by two brigades from New Zealand, and on 1 November the combined contingent sailed from Albany, W.A. in thirty-eight transports, escorted by the Australian light cruisers Sydney and Melbourne and a British and a Japanese cruiser, its destination was England. Owing to a change of plan, the troops were disembarked at Alexandria to complete their war-training in Egypt. Here they were joined by a second mixed contingent and united as the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) with General W.R. Birdwood in overall command.
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