Tasmanians will gather across the state on April 25 to commemorate Anzac Day.
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It is one of the nations most recognised dates, marking the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during World War I.
On April 25, 1915, Australian and New Zealand soldiers landed at Gallipoli, meeting a fierce resistance from the ottoman Turkish defenders. It was a battle that would drag out for 18 months, with both sides suffering heavy causalities and great hardship.
More than 8000 Australian soldiers died during the campaign, thus turning April 25 into a day to remember the sacrifices made by those who landed at Gallipoli.
To commemorate Anzac Day, The Examiner is sharing Tasmania’s stories.
We will bring you coverage from Launceston’s dawn service, as well as several other services across the North.
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Tasmania’s stories
The 40-year old Lance Corporal is currently deployed on Operation Okra with Task Group Taji Rotation Four – a combined force of 270 Australian and New Zealand Defence personnel that is delivered military training to 21,000 Iraqi Security Forces.
The sound of anti aircraft guns firing at night while Clive Lee slept was the reason he signed up to volunteer in the British Army five days after his 17th birthday in March, 1943.
The Evandale man grew up at Southend-On-Sea, a seaside town at the mouth of the Thames estuary in England.
Lieutenant Caleb Muggeridge says he has enjoyed the transition from swapping a metal lathe in a workshop to the controls of a Royal Australian Navy Seahawk helicopter.
The Launceston Church Grammar School graduate completed a fitting and machining trade in Hobart before he decided to pursue a long-held dream to join the Navy as a pilot in 2009.
On Tuesday morning, bugles will sound around the nation in the crisp dawn air.
But 100 years on from World War I, the “War to end all wars”, conflict is still rife around the globe.
More than 100 years have passed since the 40th Battalion left Tasmania, but its legacy will not be forgotten this Anzac Day.
Many of the Battalion of Tasmanian soldiers would go on to sacrifice their lives on the battlefields of France and Belgium.
This year, the Army Museum of Tasmania is commemorating Australia’s military history through its new Six-Bob-A-Day Tourists exhibition in Hobart.