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Posted on: Monday, April 26, 2004

Service salutes ANZAC war dead

Deborah Booker • The Honolulu Advertiser

Cannon fire yesterday helped commemorate ANZAC Day 2004 at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. The ANZAC Day of Remembrance marks the World War I landing in 1915 of members of an all-volunteer Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, or ANZAC, on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey in an attempt to control the Dardanelles.

The campaign was intended to give Allied shipping access to the Black Sea and provide support for Russia. More than 12,000 in the ANZAC force died in the eight-month campaign.

The day now honors the dead of Australia and New Zealand, in all theaters. ANZAC Day has been observed annually in Honolulu since 1973.

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