TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD
AND THOSE WHO SHARED
THEIR SERVICE AND SACRIFICE.

Today marks another year passed after the tragic Galipoli campaign of World war One, during which thousand of Australian and New Zealand lives were lost. The day itself however is to commemorate and remember all those lost in the conflicts of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. For the first time the world had waged a truly industrialized war and the ANZAC's suffered heavily for it. In the battle of Messines over a three thousand Kiwi lives were lost, a staggering amount considering the size of our nation at that time (Just under one million). I do not mean to preach about the staggering losses that the ANZAC's faced whilst seemingly ignoring the losses that other nations endured so to wrap it up I will finish with a few words taken from Rudyard Kipling. "From little towns in a far land we came, to save our honour and a world aflame, by little towns in a far land we sleep, and trust those things we won to you to keep."

LEST WE FORGET