Gallipoli Uncovered · Lesson 5
Anzac Day, the poppy and the Dawn Service
Name: ____________________
Why do we still remember, and how?
Why 25 April?
Anzac Day is on 25 April because ______________________________________.
The first Anzac Day was in ________. The Dawn Service remembers the dawn landing and the dawn “stand-to” in the trenches.
The red poppy
Poppies grew on the battlefields of France and Belgium. A French woman, Madame Guérin, had the idea of selling poppies to help veterans and children. New Zealand’s first Poppy Day was on 24 April 1922.
What does the poppy help us do?
The Ode of Remembrance
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Laurence Binyon, “For the Fallen”, 1914. Everyone answers: We will remember them.
My remembrance card
Name: ________________________
Number: ____________ Unit: ____________
One thing I learned about him:
Anzac Day 2027 is Sunday 25 April, in the holidays. Could you go to a Dawn Service with your family?