99 Years of ANZAC

99 years o ANZAC History and formation FORMED in Egypt in 1915 ORIGINALLY CALLED Australasian Army Corps RENAMED Australian And New Zealand Army Corps after protests from New Zealand ORIGINALLY COMPRISED OF 2 DIVISIONS AUSTRALIAN DIVISION 1st Australian Infantry Brigade 2nd Australian Infantry Brigade 3rd Australian Infantry Brigade NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIAN DIVISION New Zealand Infantry Brigade New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade 4th Australian Infantry Brigade 2nd and 3rd Light Horse Brigade were corps level troops, belonging to neither division. A MULTI-NATIONAL BODY At various points, the ANZACS also included: BRITISH INDIA 7th Brigade of the Indian Mountain Artillery 29th Indian Infantry Brigade UNITED KINGDOM Royal Navy Division British 13th (Western) Division 10th (Irish) Division EGYPT Zion Mule Corps SRI LANKA Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps Deaths and Wounded At Gallipoli: 25 Apr 1915 - 9 Jan 1916 120,000 DEATHS tt 40,000 ALLIED 80,000 TURKISH 260,000 WOUNDED CASUALTY RATES OF OF 59% ALLIED FORCE 60% TURKISH FORCE Grares and Memorials FRENCH CEMETERY COMMONWEALTH GRAVES COMMISSION CEMETERIES 31 (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, India and Newfoundland) MEMORIALS & CEMETERIES 50 FOR THE TURKISH 22,000 GRAVES ONLY 9,000 are identified with grave markers Vistorian Cross Recipients AUSTRALIAN RECIPIENTS 1915 Alexander Burton First World War 1915 Alfred Shout First World War 7th Battalion 1st Battalion 1915 William Dunstan First World War 1915 William Symons First World War 7th Battalion 7th Battalion 1915 John Hamilton First World War 1915 Hugo Throssell First World War 3rd Battalion 10th Light Horse 1915 Albert Jacka First World War 1915 Frederick Tubb First World War 14th Battalion 7th Battalion 1915 Leonard Keysor First World War 1st Battalion NEW ZEALAND RECIPIENTS 1915 Cyril Bassett First World War New Zealand Divisional Signal Company Gallipote Today 15000 tt People attended the 95th anniversary in 2005 25 APRIL 2015 Will mark the centenary of ANZACS landing in Gallipoli. Attendance will be limited to: 500 OFFICIAL GUESTS 2000 NEW ZEALANDERS 8000 AUSTRALIANS They shall grow not old, As we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary Nn the years condemn. them, At the going down of the sun, And in the moining. We will remember them. TRAVEL INSURANCE WORLDCARE. Here, there and beyond NK