Would anyone like an ANZAC biscuit
ANZAC bickies, mmm oaty goodness (recipe at the bottom of the page) The smell of ANZAC biscuits fill the air and a little tear wells in the corner of my eye as I watch the memorial celebrations for the origins of the ANZAC Day. There was a good crowd at Gallipoli but it was the service at Villers-Brettonneux that caught my heart. They read letters from the era, and showed photos of the conditions. Darwin ANZAC Day Parade, love the slouch hat with emu feathers For those of you who are non-Aussie or non-Kiwi, we were both newly independent Nations in 1914 when World War I broke out, only gaining autonomy 13 and 7 years respectively. On the 25 th April 1915 our troops landed on the beaches of Gallipoli, Turkey as part of an allied invasion to capture the Gallipoli Peninsular. It didn’t end well with many deaths on both sides. Three years later to the day, ANZAC’s freed the small French village of Villers-Brettonneux. Over 770 Aussie soldiers are laid to rest there and over 10