MELBOURNE—Thousands of people gathered across Australia and New Zealand on Sunday to honour military personnel on ANZAC Day, a year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced people to commemorate privately in driveways and on balconies.
ANZAC Day originally commemorated a bloody battle on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey during World War One. On April 25, 1915, thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) were among a larger Allied force that landed on the narrow beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula, in an ill-fated campaign that would claim more than 130,000 lives.
