Image: Members of the Kiwis in Tasmania Association performed the haka at Huonville’s ANZAC Day morning service.

ANZAC Day commemorations were held around the Huon Valley on the 108th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign and what became the birth of the ANZAC spirit of mateship, bravery and sacrifice.

ANZAC Day stands to remember the first day of landings for Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey on April 25, 1915.

The ANZACs set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in order to open the Dardanelles to the allied navies, with the objective to capture Constantinople (now Istanbul in Turkey), the capital of the Ottoman Empire and an ally of Germany.

The Anzacs landed on Gallipoli and met fierce resistance from the Ottoman Turkish defenders, the plan to knock Turkey out of the war quickly becoming a

stalemate and the campaign dragged on for a further eight months.

At the end of 1915, the allied forces were evacuated.

Both sides suffered heavy casualties and endured great hardships.

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