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Australian and New Zealand soldiers honoured at ANZAC Day services in Malaysia
Dawn Service in Kuala Lumpur
KUALA LUMPUR 25 April 2008 – ANZAC Day marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. Soldiers in those forces became known as ANZACs, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
In Malaysia, this year’s ANZAC Day was marked with a Commemorative Dawn Service at the Military Annex of the Cheras Road Christian Cemetery in Kuala Lumpur. The ceremony was attended by members of the diplomatic community, representatives of the Malaysian government and armed forces, servicemen and women from Australia and New Zealand, and school children from the Australian International School. Dawn services were also held at Sandakan in Sabah and Georgetown in Penang.
“ANZAC Day marks the anniversary of the day in 1915 when Australian and New Zealand troops landed on the beaches of Gallipoli in Turkey, the beginning of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces in the First World War” explains Her Excellency, Ms Penny Williams, Australian High Commissioner to Malaysia. “The 25th of April has become one of our nation’s most important days. Countless dawn ceremonies like this one are held all over the world, from tiny towns in outback Australia to France to Sabah. It is a day when Australians from all walks of life reflect on the many different meanings of war and commemorate the sacrifice of Australian servicemen and women in all wars, including the 3,700 Australians who died on Malaysian soil during the Second World War, the Confrontation and the Emergency.”