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Anzac Day 2008
Section 1: Speeches
'Possible speech
notes: the significance of ANZAC', prepared and revised by the Foreign
Affairs, Defence and Security Section, Parliamentary Library, April 2008.
Previous Anzac Day speeches
25 April 2007—Address by His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffrey Governor-General at the Anzac
Day Commemorative Ceremony,
Australian War Memorial Canberra.
25 April 2006—Addresses
by His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffrey Governor-General at the
Anzac Day Dawn Service, Anzac Cove, Turkey
and at the Memorial Service, Lone Pine, Turkey.
90th anniversary of the Anzac landings—25 April 2005
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message
for Anzac Day and address
at the Anzac Day Dawn Service, Gallipoli, by the Prime Minister the
Hon. John Howard.
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a message
from the Governor-General.
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address
delivered by the Anglican Bishop to the Defence Force, Anzac Day Dawn
Service, Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
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speech
by the New Zealand High Commissioner, Her Excellency, Mrs Kate Lackey
at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
Tomb of the unknown
soldier
11 November 1993—transcript
of the speech made by the Prime Minister, the Hon. Paul Keating at the
tomb of the unknown soldier on the occasion of the Funeral of the Unknown Australian Soldier,
Remembrance Day.
In ‘The
unknown Australian soldier’, Ashley Ekins discusses the symbolic significance of the
return of the remains of an unknown Australian soldier. (Wartime, No. 25, January 2004)
Ataturk's words of comfort
In 1934 the Turkish President
and Gallipoli veteran, Kemal Ataturk, wrote a tribute to the Anzacs killed at
Gallipoli:
'Those heroes that shed their
blood and lost their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly
country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the
Johnnies and the Mehmets to us. Where they lie side
by side now here in this country of ours ... You mothers, who sent their
sons from faraway countries wipe away the tears. Your sons are now lying
in our bosom and are in peace after having lost their lives on this
land. They have become our sons as well.'
This inscription appears on
the Kemal Ataturk Memorial, Anzac Parade, Canberra.
The Ode
In 1914 English poet, Laurence Binyon, wrote a poem called For the fallen, the fourth stanza of which became the Returned
Services League's 'Ode' and is spoken at Anzac Day ceremonies:
They shall grow not 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.
The Ode concludes with the
additional words 'Lest we forget'.
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