ANZAC Day

ANZAC Day

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.


Buffon II2009-04-24 18:14:26

^^^Yip. Stevo2009-04-24 19:04:57

Raising a glass to the boys as we speak. Will raise a few more tomorrow. 

3. (c)

1.  The right is Upham and the left isn't Freyberg.

 C-Diddy2009-04-24 22:46:14

LOLapaloza, Dids. Champagne comedy!

Lest we forget.

Brilliant turn outs everywhere for this years commemoration and rightly so, to so many we owe so much. They will never ever be forgotten!

We will remember them 

Answers:

Mark of the Lion is one of the better books I have ever read! Can anyone point me in the direction of other books on Upham? Would love to know more.
The story about him getting his potrait done and the guy with the telegraph coming into say he won his 2nd VC and he put the telegraph in the pocket. Amazing stuff

If any of you are into biographies or autobiographies I would recommend "The Big Show" by Pierre Clostermann - A French RAF pilots story. A few NZ mentions in it too.

From what I understand, Chunuk Bair (the heights taken by the NZers, relieved by the British but then lost it to the Turks) was the only postion that the ANZACs could see their object from - the other side of the peninsula.  Can anyone correct me or eleborate? Wongo2009-04-27 12:48:19

You have to read "Killing Rommel", a novel based on the exploits of the LRDG - it's brilliant!


kiwi pie2009-04-27 14:31:49

Sigh.

On behalf of Vic Students with brains I apologise, the Workers Party have now run our Student Association 3 years straight and its a bit ridiculous.

I'd rather no wreath than the "pro-communist wreath" lain a couple years ago (I'd be shocked if they weren't involved).

That being said, this is more about them making a statement rather than restraining themselves from stupidity. So they can still sod off.

/still surprised she got in, especially after Cosgrove

ANZAC Day is not about being pro-war.  I'm not pro-war, however, I personally think that there were wars that needed to be fought e.g. WW2.  Someone had to stop Hitler & Tojo (to a lesser extent Mussolini).  WW1 could have been avoided.  From what I understand, correct me if I'm wrong, WW1 was about alliances.  A Serbian nationalist assassinated Arch Duke Ferdinand from Austria.  Austria wanted to punish Serbia with the help of Germany/Prussia.  But Serbians, being of Slavic origins, sought the protection of Russia (also of Slavic origins), which were "allies" of Britain (& colonies) & France at the time.  So it was all sabre-rattling initially.  Any thoughts?

^

Gavrilo Princip. c**t.

That's basically how I understand it as well.  Utter waste of life.

I don't know if this is true, but I heard somebody say that Princip had actually given up trying to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand and went into a cafe.  However, not long after the Archduke came past the cafe so Princip took his opportunity.  Is that right?

Yep. I believe there were 6 conspirators in all - they had all been furnished with hand grenades and pistols by their Serbian contact. They were all lined up around the route the Archduke's convoy was taking, and one of the guys threw a hand grenade which ended up in the wrong car and seriously injuring the occupants of that car, think one of them was an Austrian general. Anyway, the Archduke and his wife got safely to town hall, but after his wife heard that people had been injured, she insisted they visit them in the hospital. On the way to the hospital, the driver of Archduke's car took a wrong tirn into a side street - Princip, who'd thought they'd lost their chance, was in the cafe right on the corner of that street. As he came out, he saw Archduke's car not 10 yards away from him. He pulled out his pistol and shot to death both the Arcduke and his wife before being wrestled by the police and the locals. Princip was quite young at the time, think he was 18-19. He died in prison from TB some 3-4 years later.

There used to be a plaque in Sarajevo on the corner where all this happened, and Princip's steps where he allegedly stood when firing were encased in the concrete. I believe the concrete steps have now been removed, and the plaque's been reworded since 1991.

unfukinbelieveable  common sense 101  should be a compulsory course at university

Have some bloody  respect ffs Vuwsa
it's not about remembering war, it's about the people who died  because of war and most we're of similar age to the people currently in charge of vuwsa more than likely some were students that went to war only to never return  as well


giddyup2009-04-29 16:27:02

http://www.amazon.com/Friendly-Fire-Secret-Between-Allies/dp/1840189967/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241490174&sr=1-6






For those of you who want a different perspective of WW2, the authors maybe a pair of loons, (in a good way), but the official papers as evidence is compelling.