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Yep, My great grandfather died there. Its taught in primary schools.

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The Battle of Gallipoli took place at Gallipoli from April 1915 to December 1915 during the First World War. A joint British and French operation was mounted in an effort to eventually capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (Istanbul). The British and French suffered a great defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, with heavy casualties on both sides but it was a valuable lesson they learned from the confrontation. The Western imperial powers seriously underestimated the martial nature of the Turks who were technically inferior but passionately motivated.

In Turkey, the campaign is known as the 脟anakkale Sava艧lar谋, after the province of 脟anakkale. In the United Kingdom, it is called the Dardanelles Campaign or Gallipoli, and in France, Australia, New Zealand and Newfoundland it is also known simply as 鈥淕allipoli.鈥?See also: Timeline of the Battle of Gallipoli
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it is not a STORY it is fact
Yes, but cohoness, has already covered that above.

I'll explain ANZAC Day.

Acronym for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, a unit in which troops from both countries fought during World War 1 in the Middle East and on the Western Front.

ANZAC Day (25 Apr) commemorates the Gallipoli dawn landing in 1915; the fighting lasted until Jan 1916, during which time 7600 were killed and 19 000 wounded.

On 30 April 1915, when the first news of the landing reached New Zealand, a half-day holiday was declared and impromptu services were held.

The following year a public holiday was gazetted on 25th of April and services to commemorate were organised by the returned servicemen.

From 1916 onwards, in both Australia and New Zealand, Anzac services were held.

Commemoration
In Australia and New Zealand, ANZAC Day commemoration features solemn "dawn services", a tradition started in Albany, Western Australia on 25 April 1923 and now held at war memorials around both countries, accompanied by thoughts of those lost at war to the ceremonial sounds of the Last Post on the bugle.

The fourth stanza of Laurence Binyon's poem For the Fallen (known as the Ode of Remembrance) is often recited.

Ode of Remembrance
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
Lest we forget, is the end of the ode, which is repeated in response by those listening.
In Australia, Canada and New Zealand (and often in the United Kingdom), the final line of the ode, "We will remember them", is repeated in response.

In Australia's Returned and Services Leagues, The Ode is read out nightly at 6 p.m., followed by a minute's silence.

Yes, I totally agree with Tarz.
The ANZAC Day Dawn Services held around the country are well worth the early start. Very moving and emotional.
The crowds are growing in number every year.
The traditional gunfire breakfast held at most RSL's after the service is also worth attending.
I'll be there, without a doubt, again this year.
Battle of Gallipoli

In Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Newfoundland, Gallipoli is the name given to the Allied Campaign on the peninsula during World War I, usually known in Britain as the Dardanelles Campaign and in Turkey as the Battle of 脟anakkale. It was an Allied attempt to push through the Dardanelles and capture Constantinople (now Istanbul). On April 25, 1915, as part of an allied force of British and French troops, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landed at Anzac cove, 2 kilometers south of their target (Suvla Bay) at the western end of the Peninsula. The campaign was largely successful for the Turks and the Germans and a catastrophe for Russia which eventually would lead to civil war partly due to this unsuccessful campaign.

ANZAC forces evacuated on December 19, 1915 and the other elements of the invasion force a little later. There were around 180,000 Allied casualties and 220,000 Turkish casualties. This campaign has become a "founding myth" for both Australia and New Zealand, and Anzac Day is still commemorated as a holiday in both countries. In fact, it is one of those rare battles that both sides seem to remember fondly, as the Turks consider it a great turning point for their (future) nation as well.

Many mementos of the Gallipoli campaign can be seen in the museum at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia, and at the Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland, New Zealand. This campaign also put a dent in the armour of Winston Churchill, then the First Lord of the Admiralty, who had commissioned the plans to invade the Dardanelles. He talks about this campaign vividly in his memoirs. A small artillery detachment was sent by Greece to aid the battle, led by Antonios Georgiadis (in some accounts Antonios Pispas, as he later changed his surname).

The Gallipoli campaign also gave an important boost to the career of Mustafa Kemal, who was at that time a little-known army commander but later was promoted to Pasha. Mustafa Kemal exceeded his authority and contravened orders in order to halt the Allied advance and eventually drive them back. His famous speech "I do not command you to fight, I command you to die. In the time it will take us to die we can be replenished by new forces." shows his courageous and determined personality. He went on to found the modern Turkish state after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

[edit] ANZAC Day
On April 25, 2005, to mark the 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing, government officials from Australia and New Zealand, most of the last surviving Gallipoli veterans, and many Australian and New Zealand tourists travelled to Turkey for a special dawn service at Gallipoli. Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, and the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark were also in attendance, and Clark was accompanied by the official NZ defence force party, veterans of several past wars and 10 New Zealand college students who won the New Zealand 'Prime Minister's Essay Competition' with their works about Gallipoli. Attendance at the ANZAC Day dawn service at Gallipoli has become popular since the 75th anniversary. Upwards of 10,000 people have attended services in Gallipoli.

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

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I urge you if you have not been to a dawn service on Anzac Day make sure that you go to the next one. It's great to remember and being at the service, seeing all the old men wearing their medals with pride is a fantastic feeling.
I am so glad that we celebrate Anzac Day, and remember thoses who lost their lives fighting for our lifes, country and freedom.

If you are able to get to Canberra make sure that you visit the National War Museum.
Mosat Australians know this story, and despite some people being anal as to whether it is fact or story, that is besides the point. It is a story but one based on fact. It is a true and accurate story as depicted by some of the answers above mine. It was a day we became known to the world as a nation and it eas our baptism of fire.