Remembering Anzac: Australia and World War I

Frank Bongiorno

doi:10.4324/9781351055581-8

Remembering Anzac: Australia and World War I

Frank Bongiorno^*

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Abstract

The landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops at Gallipoli in Turkey on 25 April 1915 quickly came to be celebrated in Australia as a national founding moment. It remains so today, with Anzac Day having gained wide acceptance as the foremost national day of commemoration. This chapter explains how this occurred in terms of the Australian colonies’ pre-war history and post-war development. It argues that while Anzac’s fortunes have fluctuated since 1915, its reinvention since the 1960s as a post-imperial, post-secular collective memory (or ‘postmemory’) was the result of its remarkable adaptability as Australia moved from British settler dominion to independent nation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	History, Memory and Public Life
Subtitle of host publication	The Past in the Present
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	183-207
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351055574
ISBN (Print)	9781138905849
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351055581-8
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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