ANZAC Day 2024
We shall remember them
ANZAC Day is the day all Australians come together in remembrance. ANZAC Day marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. However, it goes beyond the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli. It is the day on which we remember all Australians who served and died in war and on operational service past and present.
The National Commemorative Service will be presented live from the Australian War Memorial on ABC TV and iView from 5:30am on Thursday, 25 April 2024.
The following nearby ANZAC Day services have also been scheduled.
| Time |
Location |
| 5am |
Bicentennial Park, Prince of Wales Drive, West Pymble |
| 7:30am |
Wahroonga Park, Cnr of Illoura and Millewa Avenues, Wahroonga |
| 9:30am |
Turramurra Memorial Park, Cnr of Eastern Road and Karuah Road, Turramurra |
| 10:30am |
St Ives War Memorial, 203 Mona Vale Road, St Ives |
The Military Ordinariate of Australia National ANZAC Day Mass will be held at St Christopher’s Cathedral, Manuka ACT at 8:00am on Thursday, 25 April 2024. The video of the service will be available on demand via the link below.
Video Military Ordinariate of Australia National ANZAC Day Mass
The Australian War Memorial has provided an extensive collection of related resources at their Web site link below.
Australian War Memorial ANZAC Day information
Menin Gate at Midnight
The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is in Ypres Belgium. "Menin Gate at midnight" is a painting by Will Longstaff to commemorate those soldiers with no marked graves on the Western Front during the First World War. The painting is also known as "Ghosts of Menin Gate". The painting is held in the collection of The Australian War Memorial.
The link below is a video reflection on the inspiration behind one of the most moving and captivating paintings following the end of the First World War.
Video The inspiration behind "Menin Gate at Midnight"
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields is a poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on 3 May 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it. In Flanders Fields was first published on 8 December 1915 in the London magazine Punch. Flanders Fields is a common English term for the World War I battlefields of Belgium and France.