Pictures of ANZAC Day from around Australia 1920

SYDNEY 1920

L to R Top: Watching the March Past in Macquarie-street; Portion of the Great Crowd that took part in the Service in the Domain; A section of the crowd in Queen's-Square.

L to R Bottom: Members of the Australian Flying Corps; General Birdwood taking the Salute in Queen's-Sqare; Representatives of the Mounted Division

BRISBANE 1920

L to R top: Forming Up; Members of a Division (unable to read)
L to R bottom: The Lieutenant-Governor; Sounding the Last Post in Albert Square

WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1920

Anzac Day - Scenes at last Sunday's Memorial Service and Distribution of Decorations

SOUTH AUSTRALIA 1920

Celebration in Adelaide in Memory of the Brave Men who Fell at that Notable Landing on Gallipoli on April 25th Five Years Ago

L to R Top: Memorial Service at Elder Park; Parade of Returned Soldiers passing Adelaide Town Hall - Lieutenant-Governor (Sir George Murray) took the Salute

The Anzac Day Football Carnival held on the Adelaide Oval

L to R Bottom: Combined Light Horse Team; 50th Battalion Team

MELBOURNE 1920

ANZAC Memorial Service held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground - Chaplain-General J. L. Bentoul Speaking

Inset: Ammunition and Cordite Workers Marching

Bottom: Eight Hours Day in Melbourne - The Procession in Bourke Street

This poem was penned by P. W. S. of Anson's Bay in Tasmania, and published in the Daily Telegraph (Launceston) on 23 April 1920, followed by a picture taken on ANZAC day in Tasmania in 1922.

GALLIPOLI

(A Tribute to the Memory of our Fallen Comrades.)

FOR ANZAC DAY

Not all in vain — Australia's sons,

Who gained the prize so dearly won:

Those high achievements now obtained:

The freedom of 'The Narrows' ' gained.

Not on beaten tracks they came that way

But scaled the heights on that great day —

That day of all — in history writ —

Found Anzac youths with iron grit.

The Spartans, by the world idealed,.

At Thermopylae they would not yield.

Triumphant supreme, the nations speak —

Spartans and Anzac stand unique.

"The wash" at Anzac Cove is light,

And the day at dawn seems ever bright;

They sleep beneath an alien sky —

Those Anzac men who dared to die.

Sleep on, your duty nobly done!

Your comrades "carried on" and won.

The name you framed on that great day —

''Anzac,' is written in immortal lay.

Yours was a sacrifical gift to all —

A people' s answer to the nation's call.

Outside Amiens and in Palestine

We avenged your sacrificial death divine.

The past has merged into the present's might.

The Kaiser and his satellites taste their plight.

We gave our best in those dark hours,

And now the honor, shall be theirs — the dead's ours.

P.W.S.

Anson's Bay.

TASMANIA ANZAC DAY (Hobart) 1922

Sources:

1. ANZAC Day Celebrations in Sydney: General Birdwood Takes the Salute (1920, April 28). Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), p. 18.
2. Returned Soldiers Parade on ANZAC Day in Brisbane (1920, May 8). The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), p. 24.
3. Western Australia (1920, April 29). Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), p. 21.
4. ANZAC Day (1920, April 28). Critic (Adelaide, SA : 1897-1924), p. 15.
5. Melbourne (1920, May 1). Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), p. 31.
6. Gallipoli (1920, April 23). Daily Telegraph (Launceston, Tas. : 1883 - 1928), p. 6.
7. Hobart - Elizabeth Street - near Davey Street intersection - Anzac Day 1922 - Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office: NS869/1/77 - (Images from the TAHO collection that are part of The Commons have ‘no known copyright restrictions’, which means TAHO is unaware of any current copyright restrictions on these works. This can be because the term of copyright for these works may have expired or that the copyright was held and waived by TAHO. The material may be freely used provided TAHO is acknowledged; however TAHO does not endorse any inappropriate or derogatory use.)