My presentation is about the Great war.

Life was hard in the trenches. A lot of the time the mud could be up to the soldiers knees. The trenches were full of flies and the flies constantly settled on the edible food. Almost all of the soldiers in the trenches were ill. They got a lot of diseases like dysentery while they were already weak from the bad food. The soldiers were never safe they were always on the run. In November 1915 a storm hit which drowned a lot of the soldiers in the trenches.

After about a two years of tough fighting Sir Kitchener arrived in Gallipoli on a small boat. He had come to see the positions for himself. After he had seen the Turkish forces he thought the ANZACs should evacuate. When he had discussed it with the senior commanders he got his way. The trickiest part was escaping without the Turks getting suspicious. An Australian lieutenant suggested they make a silent escape so their was to be no gunfire or sniping from the ANZAC troops. The evacuation was done in three stages:

1.The ANZACs got ready for the evacuation and tricked the Turks into thinking they were preparing for a winter campaign

2.The first half of the ANZACs left for home leaving enough troops to hold of a major Turkish attack.

3.After a few days over night the remaining men would leave.

The symbol of ANZAC day is the poppy. The reason we wear a poppy is because there was a battle on Flanders field where heaps of people died. The ANZACs were buried under this field. When the war had ended a whole lot of poppies grew that is why we wear a poppy on ANZAC day.

Chunuk Bair was one of the high points of the Sari Bair range. A huge battle was fought on Chunuk Bair between New Zealand and Britain fighting the Ottoman Empire. The allies took the peak but after a few days the Ottoman Empire took Chunuk Bair back.

My image below is a pinecone from Chunuk Bair mounted on a trophy. The inscription on the trophy says that his band held the land but too many will remain buried there.

The landing at Gallipoli was a disaster. The Tenth and the eleventh Battalions’ lines crossed over which took them to the wrong beach. The reason this was bad was because there was no way up to the top and there was machine gun fire coming from the left while there was artillery fire coming from the right but to make it worse there were Snipers above them. They couldn’t tell who was who and they needed to get to the top of the cliffs. With shrapnel flying everywhere it made their goal even harder.

We commemorate ANZAC day with a parade that starts before dawn. The Defence services march to the local war memorial where members of the public surround them. The service includes National anthems, Hymns, Wreaths and the last verse of “For the Fallen”. Then the last post is sounded followed by a minute of silence.