Anzac.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

Anzac.

By THELMA CLARKE. 75. Grange Road, Mt. Eden. Auckland. Seventeen long years have sped by since that first April 25, when a fleet of long grey warships slid silently through the mists that floated over the narrow channel of the Dardanelles and emptied their human cargo on to the shores of Anzac Cove. Bat the years cannot efface the splendour of that glorious failure nor dim the undying memory of those brave Australian and New Zealand soldiers who gave their lives so gallantly on the faraway peninsula of Gallipoli. They heard the call, and answered unquestioningly. Anzac Day should not be one of grief and mourning, but rather of remembrance and prido in those men who left' homes and loved ones to fight—and die, for the Motherland on a foreign frontier. On Anzac Day we id New Zealand will gather at lofty cenetaph, memorial gate, or humble cair;i to honour our glorious dead and to place garlands of blood-red poppies and fragrant rosemary upon monuments we have erected to the imperishable epic of Gallipoli. A thousand voices will join in singing that beloved and inspiring hymn, " 0 God, Our Help in Ages Past," arid when the last chords have died away the solitary notes of the " Last Post will ring out over the hushed assembly to fade away in one dying echo, and a single thought will fill a thousand minds—" We have not forgotten." The Anzacs, many of them youths just setting out in their chosen careers, aftd men in the prime of life, have caused a golden chapter jto be

written in the history of our Empire, as glowing a record of deeds of valour as those of the Knights of Old. Their's is a record of bravery, endurance and steadfast courage in the face of the seemingly impossible. The message of Anzac, unswerving loyalty in the path of duty, will rank high among the ideals of the youth of to-day, in whoso bands must rest the future security of the sistor colonies of New Zealand and Australia. We have been given an example of supreme fearlessness and gallantry that is to be upheld as an undying tribute to British manhood. We have inscribed the names of our valiant on marble in letters of gold, but the full significance of their noble sacrifice is to be found engraved deep upon our hearts. "Their name liveth for evermore." This forever will be the glorious epitaph of the men of Anzac.