Anzac Day

Culture of origin: National · National holiday

Holiday sources: Australia (national)

Anzac Day marks the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire on 25 April 1915, its first engagement of the First World War. The campaign failed after eight months; Allied deaths passed 56,000, including 8,709 Australians and 2,721 New Zealanders. The day now remembers all who served and died in their countries' wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations, with dawn services, marches and wreath-laying.