Australian War Memorial Anzac Diversity Collection Anzac Diversity is a collection of case studies exploring the ethnic diversity of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). Anzac Diversity Anzac Diversity is a collection of case studies exploring the ethnic diversity of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). Great War nurses I have never regretted that I took the notion into my head to take on nursing, for it has opened up opportunities that I would never have had. Sister Jessie Tomlins More than 3,000 Australian civilian nurses volunteered for active service during the First World War. The Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) had been formed in July 1903 as part of the Australian Army Medical Corps. A group of officers, nurses and men of the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station.E05197 The women worked in hospitals, on hospital ships and trains, or in casualty clearing stations closer to the front line. By war's end, having faced the dangers and demands of wartime nursing and taken on new responsibilities and practices, nurses had proved to be essential to military medical service. The adventure begins for a group of Australian nurses departing in the troopship HMAT Euripides, Melbourne, May 1916. Group portrait of the sick bay staff from the Australian hospital ship AMFA Grantala.302802
NZ BMD ANZAC Image by Brenda A Guide for Anzac Day History, significance and links to various other perspectives on Anzac Day in New Zealand, Australia and Gallipoli in Turkey. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, secondarywww.anzac.govt.nz/ Anzac Day A link to the International Children's Digital library where you can read the complete Anzac Day by Kevin Boon, one of the books from his "Special Days" series. Suggested level: primary, intermediatewww.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/BookPreview? Anzac Day from New Zealand History Site Good comprehensive historic material is given alongside the present day relevance and celebration of Anzac Day. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, secondarywww.nzhistory.net.nz/war/anzac-day-1920-45 Anzac Day in Rememberance Anzac Day and what it means to the returned service men and women of New Zealand. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, sec Anzac Gallery Auckland War Memorial Museum Many Answers Online First World War resource guide
Te Ara - New Zealand Origins The First World War was caused by the destabilisation of the balance of power in Europe due to the rise of Germany. The war began in 1914 when Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia because of the assassination of an archduke. New Zealand was part of the British Empire, and when Britain declared war on Germany, in August 1914, that meant New Zealand was at war too. The two sides were called the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary) and the Allies, which included the British Empire, Russia and France. New Zealand enters the war New Zealand decided to send soldiers to fight in the war for a number of reasons, including New Zealand’s strong ties to Britain and its concern with keeping trade routes open so it could continue to export to Britain. Within a month New Zealand troops had occupied Western Samoa, which was a German territory. In October 1914 the first group of 8,454 soldiers left New Zealand heading for the other side of the world. Gallipoli The Western Front The home front
First War War Poetry The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research. The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artefacts from the Imperial War Museum, a separate archive of over 6,500 items contributed by the general public, and a set of specially developed educational resources. These educational resources include an exciting new exhibition in the three-dimensional virtual world Second Life. Freely available to the public as well as the educational community, the First World War Poetry Digital Archive is a significant resource for studying the First World War and the literature it inspired.
Image result for nurses during ww 10 facts about the ANZACs 1. ANZAC is an abbreviation of The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. 2. April 25, 1915, was the day the ANZACs landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula, now known as ANZAC Cove (see photo above) to battle the Turkish army during WWI. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
The Gallipoli campaign - The Gallipoli campaign Each year on Anzac Day, New Zealanders (and Australians) mark the anniversary of the Gallipoli landings of 25 April 1915. On that day, thousands of young men, far from their homes, stormed the beaches on the Gallipoli Peninsula in what is now Turkey. For eight long months, New Zealand troops, alongside those from Australia, Great Britain and Ireland, France, India, and Newfoundland battled harsh conditions and Ottoman forces desperately fighting to protect their homeland. By the time the campaign ended, more than 130,000 men had died: at least 87,000 Ottoman soldiers and 44,000 Allied soldiers, including more than 8700 Australians. Among the dead were 2779 New Zealanders, about a fifth of all those who had landed on the peninsula. In the wider story of the First World War, the Gallipoli campaign made no large mark.
WWI Battlefields Image result for nurses during ww The red poppy Anzac poppy The red poppy has become a symbol of war remembrance the world over. People in many countries wear the poppy to remember those who died in war or who still serve. In Flanders fields The red or Flanders poppy has been linked with battlefield deaths since the time of the Great War (1914–18). In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. McCrae was a Canadian medical officer who, in May 1915, had conducted the funeral service of a friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres (Ieper). McCrae threw away the poem, but a fellow officer rescued it and sent it on to the English magazine Punch; 'In Flanders fields' was published on 8 December 1915. Keeping the faith Many people were moved by the pathos of 'In Flanders fields'. The first Poppy Day New Zealand was one of these countries. Making poppies Wearing poppies