Well done and thank you, to the above posters for their articles as regards Anzac Day. It's good to hear that the selfless sacrifice of those ANZAC's lives are not forgotten.
The Great War had a dreadful impact upon Australia, whose population was only around 4.9M at that time.
Nearly 40% of the able-bodied Australian men between 18 and 44 enlisted, and the Australian casualty rate of 64.8% was the highest of all the forces involved.
In nearly every major park in Australia, and even in the tiniest Australian country towns, there are WW1 memorials listing anything from dozens to thousands, of our war dead.
It's a little-known fact, that in both WW1 and WW2, Australian and NZ troops made up only around 10% of the fighting forces - yet they were responsible for around 20% of enemy territory captured, and around 20% of enemy war materiel seized. Our troops punched well above their weight.
Today, we are seeing very few of our remaining WW2 veterans every ANZAC day. Soon, they will be all gone, just like all the WW1 veterans are gone. I trust ANZAC day is still being commemorated in another 100 years, by those who appreciate just what those men and women gave for the peacefulness and freedom we enjoy today in the West, in the U.K. and in most of Europe.
AWM - WW1 enlistments, casualties and general statistics