Anzac Day 2022: Lest We Forget

Today is Anzac Day – 25 April 2022.

What began at 4:30 am on 25 April 1915 lives in the collective memory of Australians for all time – the legendary ANZACS (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) were born and forged in the heat of battle at Gallipoli; many of them never made it home. Nearby on the Greek Island of Lemnos, the heroic women of the Australian Army Nursing Service were there to ease the men’s suffering and nurse them the best way they could.

Women such as Sister Alice Ross-King (She’s one of my all time Mighty History Chick) who under fire protected her patients after the Germans aircraft attacked them and showed such heroism she was awarded the Military Medal for her bravery along with nurses Dorothy Cawood, Mary Jane Derrer and Clare Deacon.

As for the Turks… well what can you say about a country who honours an invader and renames part of their land “ANZAC Cove” and pays respect to the fallen ANZACS year after year. Amazing.

I wrote “Mabel of the ANZACS” and loosely based it on Sister Alice Ross-King’s heroics.
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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.

#LestWeForget