Nation honours Anzac heroes
April 25, 2005
AUSTRALIA has begun marking the 90th anniversary of Gallipoli with thousands attending a dawn service in Sydney and record crowds expected at events throughout the day.
Only one of Australia's three surviving World War I veterans will take part in the Anzac Day parades across the country.
But a massive contingent on young people is expected to ensure the nation's fallen will never be forgotten.
Australia's oldest surviving WWI veteran, 107-year-old Peter Casserly, is expected to lead today's Anzac Day parade through Perth.
Prime Minister John Howard and other dignitaries will join thousands for services at Anzac Cove in Turkey.
Up to 800 buses will ferry the participants along the controversial new stretch of road at Anzac Cove for the ceremony at North Beach, a couple of hundred metres from where the Anzacs landed on April 25, 1915
Mr Howard, New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, the Prince of Wales and scores of veterans and their families will be among those honouring the nearly one million Allied and Turkish forces who served at Gallipoli in the brutal eight-month campaign.
Tight security blanketed the area in the build-up to the services today, with a heavy police and military presence on the peninsula itself as well as across the Dardanelles Straits in the town of Canakkale, from where thousands of Australians were to cross by ferry.
Mr Howard is expected to join the crowd at North Beach at around 4am local time (11am AEST), 90 minutes before the dawn service begins.
He will then attend the Gunfire breakfast before the Australian memorial service at Lone Pine.
Even though he will attend the Turkish service, he will break with tradition and not join the New Zealanders at their service at Chunuk Bair, opting instead to have lunch with Australian veterans.
At home, the key national Anzac Day event was to be the dawn service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, which about 20,000 people were expected to attend.
About 200,000 people are expected to attend the Sydney march, which for the first time will not include a WWI veteran, after the death of 105-year-old Marcel Caux.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15077772-2,00.html
April 25, 2005
AUSTRALIA has begun marking the 90th anniversary of Gallipoli with thousands attending a dawn service in Sydney and record crowds expected at events throughout the day.
Only one of Australia's three surviving World War I veterans will take part in the Anzac Day parades across the country.
But a massive contingent on young people is expected to ensure the nation's fallen will never be forgotten.
Australia's oldest surviving WWI veteran, 107-year-old Peter Casserly, is expected to lead today's Anzac Day parade through Perth.
Prime Minister John Howard and other dignitaries will join thousands for services at Anzac Cove in Turkey.
Up to 800 buses will ferry the participants along the controversial new stretch of road at Anzac Cove for the ceremony at North Beach, a couple of hundred metres from where the Anzacs landed on April 25, 1915
Mr Howard, New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, the Prince of Wales and scores of veterans and their families will be among those honouring the nearly one million Allied and Turkish forces who served at Gallipoli in the brutal eight-month campaign.
Tight security blanketed the area in the build-up to the services today, with a heavy police and military presence on the peninsula itself as well as across the Dardanelles Straits in the town of Canakkale, from where thousands of Australians were to cross by ferry.
Mr Howard is expected to join the crowd at North Beach at around 4am local time (11am AEST), 90 minutes before the dawn service begins.
He will then attend the Gunfire breakfast before the Australian memorial service at Lone Pine.
Even though he will attend the Turkish service, he will break with tradition and not join the New Zealanders at their service at Chunuk Bair, opting instead to have lunch with Australian veterans.
At home, the key national Anzac Day event was to be the dawn service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, which about 20,000 people were expected to attend.
About 200,000 people are expected to attend the Sydney march, which for the first time will not include a WWI veteran, after the death of 105-year-old Marcel Caux.
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