The Anzac cemetery

Bill Gammage

doi:10.1080/10314610708601235

The Anzac cemetery

Bill Gammage^*

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How did the Anzac battlefield of 1915 become what we see today? Why were Anzac's scattered graves declared one cemetery? This article looks at how the 1923 Lausanne peace treaty, still in force, made the Anzac area a single war cemeterya significant difference from all other Commonwealth war cemeteries. It shows that the difference stemmed from a sense of the nation-making importance of Anzac to Australia and New Zealand. It argues that this sense is absent from Australia's recent care of Anzac, and that Australia has breached Lausanne and its obligations in surrendering much control of the Anzac site to Turkey.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	124-140
Number of pages	17
Journal	Australian Historical Studies
Volume	38
Issue number	129
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10314610708601235
Publication status	Published - 2007

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