ANZAC DAY

This is the day the Australians and New Zealanders and the South Sea Islanders
remember their war dead and all we in Europe should never forget the sacrifice of
these young men who came right across the world when asked to help us fight for
the freedom of Europe.
This picture is of the War memorial for the ANZACs at Villiers-Bretonneux in the Battlefields of France on the Somme where hundred of thousands of Aussies and Kiwis
are buried or have a memorial marked simply 'KNOWN ONLY TO GOD'.

British tanks were losing out to the Germans at this spot when they were joined overnight by the Australian Infantry who managed to drive out the German Army ten times their number but at a cost of twelve hundred Australian lives.  When the war was over the
people of this little town tried to claim their lives back and in the meantime raised enough
money to put a memorial to the gallant army who had helped save them.

A plaque on the memorial reads-
    "Soldiers of Australia, whose brothers lie here in French soil,
     be assured that your memory will always be kept alive, and
     that the burial places of your dead will be respected and cared for"
                             
                                                LEST WE FORGET