Name: Farewell to ANZAC by Cicely Fox Smith
Uploaded: 2022-04-25T04:44:04+00:00
Duration: 3 min 37 s
Description: Today was the first ANZAC dawn service that I've been able to attend for two years here in Yass, due to COVID cancellations. I have made a new setting for this fabulous poem written by Cicely Fox Smit

2 years ago

Today was the first ANZAC dawn service that I've been able to attend for two years here in Yass, due to COVID cancellations.

I have made a new setting for this fabulous poem written by Cicely Fox Smith and published in 1916 (the failed campaign ran from Feb 1915 to Jan 1916).
https://allpoetry.com/Farewell-To-Anzac

However you paint it, Gallipoli was a stinging defeat for the empire, and a bloody loss for the Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians who were killed and wounded:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_campaign

This poem has also been set to music by Martyn Wyndham-Read:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwIxgycI3MM

and by Charlie Ipcar:
https://www.charlieipcar.com/lyrics/farewell_anzac.htm

Photos of the Gallipoli campaign are from The War Memorial:
https://www.awm.gov.au

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