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Anzac Day

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Australian troops going into action across Plugge's Plateau after the landing on 25 April 1915. Anzac Day.

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On this day: Gallipoli in 1915

Australian and New Zealand soldiers land in Turkey on what will go on to become Anzac Day.

Anzac Beach at 8am on 25 April 1915. Men from the Australian 4th Battalion (1st Brigade) and Jacob’s 26th Indian Mountain Battery are seen landing. The men in the foreground belong to the 1st Brigade staff. At the water’s edge is the body of Sapper R. Reynolds, one of the first men to be killed at Gallipoli.

Photographer: L-Cpl. Arthur Robert Henry Joyner (1st Division Signal Company, killed 5 December 1916 at Bazentin, Somme).

Anzac Beach 4th Bn landing 8am April 25 1915.