reaction to Eric Bogle And the band played waltzing Matilda (Anzac Day) THE WOLF HUNTERZ REACTIONS

[@lynndally9160]

It doesn't matter how many times i hear this song, it always makes me cry 😢. LEST WE FORGET 🌺

[@sliobutros6664]

Trust me .. I'm also..😢😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤

[@nicholasbryce1810]

@@sliobutros6664 Same

[@jimcameron162]

This man is actually Scottish but he understands Australia as well as anybody who has lived here all their life. He just describes it better than anyone else. Look at the other songs he has. Worth the time.

[@gunnoreekie]

That's why the Pogues version is even better

[@notanotherenigma7759]

As he said, The song was written about events that happened in 1915. A few things you should know... A Matilda was the name given to the pack that men would carry, like a knapsack. Waltzing Matilda meant to wander the countryside, carrying the bag. Men use to walk from town to town, farm to farm, to try to find work. This walking was also called rambling. The song talks about a peace treaty in the middle of the engagement, where the ANZACs and the Turks called a peace for 24 hours, to bury the dead, due to diseases that were on the rise. There are no ANZAC vets left, yet the march is just as big today as it ever was, infact bigger. People get up early and go to the dawn service (held at around 4:30 am) and then there are later services held later during the morning. While it started because of a battle from WW1, over time it has come to represent all engagements by the Australian Army, and I can only guess it is the same in New Zealand. There is also a studio version of this song, with a video made by a Canadian student, and although it has nothing to do with Canada, I think that it shows the universal suffering war brings. Lest We Forget.

[@vickya8653]

Great explanation 🇦🇺

[@BaxterThewall]

Matilda... man's swag.

[@jemxs]

Excellent explanation, I would just add that Waltzing Matilda is a traditional song always played at official events, the last verse of this performance was a verse from Waltzing Matilda.

[@nzmoggy3898]

Yes definitely the same in New Zealand.

[@user-Terry314]

Thanks for that. From Melbourne.

[@MrCollinspm]

This needs to be followed up with "I was only nineteen" by Redgum

[@danielryan4050]

I think they've done a reaction to that.

[@katewebber1131]

When COVID struck our country, we did not forget ANZAC day. In the dawn light we stood at the end of our driveways with a light and phones/ ipads and joined in the dawn service, my nieghbours and I stood so quite , it was so moving, I wish it was still done. ❤❤❤❤❤.Not COVID but so many people outside their own homes paying homage to the fallen.

[@juliedeveson9275]

Someone in my neighbourhood played the last post on a bugle or trumpet, one of the most haunting experiences I’ve ever had, probably more so than the many Anzac Day dawn services I’ve attended

[@purposeinmind]

We did the same and I wish it was done this way still as well especially for those who can't make the regular services etc.

[@juliedeveson9275]

@@purposeinmind … I don’t think anyone would complain if you continued to do this as your own form of remembrance … you could probably find a broadcast of a dawn service on line and follow along

[@purposeinmind]

@@juliedeveson9275 so true. I did it this year and reckon I will each year it's just that it was a much deeper experience when I could see and hear others, maybe just because it was during lockdowns at that time?

[@heatherrowles9930]

@@purposeinmind I get what you mean......coming out to the end of the drive in that pre dawn cold.....to see candles up and down the street, listening to the last post (I can hear it from the cenotaph where I live as well)......and then the magpies joining in to make it a uniquely Aussie experience. Lest we forget.....

[@dmacuk]

Eric was a Scotsman, you can still hear his accent at the beginning. Every time I hear this song the tears start flowing.

[@mikeyhau]

"Waltzing Matilda", the original song, is the battle song of the US 1st Marine Division. Their use of this music dates back to WW2 when they received a warm welcome by the people of Melbourne where they went following the Battle of Guadalcanal. Their insignia includes a Southern Cross, part of the Australian flag.

[@vergadain]

That’s beautiful acknowledgement. Thank you for sharing.

[@HenriHattar]

Written by Andrew Barton Patterson....AKA Banjo.

[@Jimbo58]

waltzing Matilda: to waltz Matilda To carry a swag; to travel the road. A matilda is a swag, the roll or bundle of possessions carried by an itinerant worker or swagman. The word waltz in to waltz Matilda is a jocular or ironic way to refer to the hard slog of carrying your possessions as you travel on foot, although waltz may possibly influenced by a German colloquial term, auf die Walze gehen, which means ‘to go a-wandering; to go on one's travels’. The term to waltz Matilda is first recorded in the late 1880s, and is likely to have had a fairly short life, if it hadn’t been for the poet Banjo Patterson. In 1895 he penned the lyrics to the song about a swagman that became Australia’s famous national song, ‘Waltzing Matilda’. The song became strongly associated with national identity, and has cemented the term waltzing Matilda in the Australian imagination - although it is a fair bet that not all of us know exactly what it means! 1908 Cairns Morning Post 8 April: The population still increases, every coach to Quartz Hill bringing a full complement of passengers who ‘waltz matilda’ the 60 odd miles to the new El Dorado.

[@HenriHattar]

@@Jimbo58 As exemplified by the wonderful works of Andrew Barton Patterson .

[@brendoncrofts6714]

Best music ever penned to paper . Thank god for the Anzacs 🇦🇺👊🇳🇿

[@robhamilton4373]

Hi Team, thanks for your sincere reaction. Song is about Australia and New Zealand's first major battle of WW1. An amphibious landing on the Gallipoli Penninsula in Turkey. Formative for both ourselves and the Kiwis and we have gone overseas as Anzac ever since. Interesting fact - the song Waltzing Matilda is an informal Australian Anthem but it is also the Regimental March of the 1st Marine Division. This is because it was played to them as they landed in Australia after the terrible battles in the SW Pacific. I learned this when I was with my Aussie rifle company posted to serve with the USMC in K Bay, Hawaii. My piper played it as we marched through the Battalion area one morning and people were getting out of their cars saluting. They didn't know the meaning or origin of the tune and we were unaware of its significance to the Marines. My piper could also play The Halls of Montezuma so if you every want to see a Marine with a tear in their eye, play that to them on the bag pipes. Love the channel. Rob from downunda

[@vickya8653]

I’m not crying, you’re crying. Every time.

[@manbearpig7359]

Yep, every goddam time 😢

[@nunya2171]

Middle aged man who's grandfather and his brothers served in WW2 and great grandfathers served and some died in WW1, have no shame in admitting it makes me cry too. I don't cry at much but this always gets me, as does the line in Redgum's Only 19 about the channel 7 chopper chilling him to his feet, as I witnessed the PTSD my grandfather suffered til his last day at 84yo.

[@traceyanderson7489]

ANZAC Day is is arguably Australia’s most important day. Hundreds of thousands of people get up in the early hours to attend dawn services all around the country and then go to the march. The sacrifices of all our armed forces will never be forgotten, Lest We Forget.

[@Reneesillycar74]

Lest We Forget

[@davemcdonald10]

Yep the only day of the year I refuse to work

[@gunnoreekie]

And unlike the yanks, it's a day of reflection & loss, not a celebration

[@Naomi0o_o0]

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them LEST WE FORGET

[@joylubawy1852]

Thank you for acknowledging this awesome song by Eric Bogle. A Matilda is a bed roll ( swag) and when you walk with it hung across your back it dances (waltzing) and they way Eric referred to this poem/song written by Banjo Patterson is a touch of brilliance. Every April 25th is Anzac Day, our National day in reality. We stop, remember, give thanks and mourn those heroes of Gallipoli. We were a young country in 1915 and our population was devastated by the losses we endured. Every town has a memorial, it shapes our country more than anyone could understand. It's more than a legend or myth, it's the brutal reality. A cousin of mine died there on those slopes and his body never recovered, he had run out of ammunition and ordered to run uphill against the Turks with only a bayonet. Eric, in his song and with his incredible style brings the brutality to the song and the heartfelt loss many suffered who lived to come home, wounded, blind, insane. Thank you.

[@flatoutt1]

bloody great comment mate.thanks

[@MaryScott-ue7ih]

I lost two great uncles at gallipoli and 18 and19 years old . Anzac Day is to remember there is no glory in war. And remember the sacrifice of the people who kept our land free for us to grow and live free

[@waynesmith8431]

Magnificent song. God Bless all the Anzacs!

[@suemoore984]

Eric didn't serve in WWI, but he picked up on the emotions of the marchers and spectators when he attended his first ANZAC Day march. It's an incredibly emotional day for us. I grew up in the aftermath of WWII, so I've been watching these marches for nearly 70 years. I still shed tears every year

[@magpiegirl3783]

Anzac (Australia and New Zealand Army Corp) Day is special in Australia. In many ways, the First World War defined modern Australia. There isn’t a town or city across the country that does not have a war memorial. So many sons, brothers and fathers did not return and most families will tell of a relative that served as an Anzac (my own grandfather as well). They went off to fight for Mother England, naive to the hell they would endure but their efforts solidified Australia as a nation. The trench warfare fought by the diggers and the Turks was hell. The British planned the assault and it was a disaster for allied troops. Australians return to Turkey every Anzac Day (25th April) to remember. The Turkish people and government welcome them and support the remembrance, with their President at the time saying that the Australian dead were now sons of Turkey. WW! Was significant for Turkey as well as it was the end of the Ottoman Empire and caused considerable strife in Turkey. Many of the Anzacs went on to Europe to fight in France were the French too remember the Australians who fought and died.

[@veridian79]

No-one can put feeling into that song like Eric does. Gets me every time I here it.

[@MrAllanpog]

My grandfather was there, at Gallipoli and shot in the hip. They repaired him in Cairo and sent him to the Somme. Somehow he survived there and came home. Couldn’t lay bricks anymore so they sent him to accountants school. My father was on the headland in Darwin when the Japanese bombers flew over and buggered the whole city. He was only 19. I might have been called up to fight in Vietnamese, or mum brother, but lottery missed him, and I was spared by the Whitlam government. My cousin came back from there a wreck. 3 generations encountering war. I’m so glad my kids only have photons on their screens to shoot at. Lest we forget.

[@sylviakriven4855]

Lest we forget

[@MrCollinspm]

It is actually April 25

[@vergadain]

Yep and it’s a day of solemn remembrance. Happy Anzac Day from Travis, misses the sentiment of the occasion.

[@jamesgudgeon4868]

April 25th 1:40

[@erinundra]

They're both stoned.

[@dennispicone6801]

​@@jamesgudgeon4868true. However, I don't think they're too concerned. ❤😂

[@saltyaussie7702]

​@@vergadainit's not solemn. I remember & celebrate my brothers.

[@larainecurry4566]

Nope it's April 25 th each year and is still huge as we remember the sacrifices of our service members . It is also worth noting the forces he sings about in this song were all volunteers, even lying about their ages to fight for their country . We never say happy ANZAC day , it is a day of respect and remembering.

[@guyhouse3219]

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

[@scottwallyn3171]

Lest we forget

[@sootzs7705]

We will remember them.

[@bernardpeel7133]

Thanks for choosing this one, guys.

[@ahoytheremate1954]

Eric is a bloody beauty im a viet vet and we all love him god bless him 💗

[@Nuggettfaz]

Can't tell you how many times I've heard that song and yet it still makes me tear up. To think it was written by a non-Australian and yet captures the emotion so perfectly is a testament to Eric's brilliance. The beautiful acoustic guitar playing was superb. Cheers Big Ears. One and all.

[@DaveOz-mx5oh]

don't worry Suze, we struggle not to cry too

[@justlinsu]

ANZAC DAY is not about glorifying war it's to 'Remember' our fallen soldiers "Less We Forget'' Also to show appreciation to the serving men and women of today. This song is such a moving song and it helps keep the memories of those fallen soldiers alive.

[@ChrisDavey-ug6mp]

My grandfather joined in 1914 at the start of ww1 and lived to come home at the end of 1918, he was 1 of 24 that came home out of 1000 that joined at the same time. Western front.

[@jaynebuchanan4612]

‘Lest we forget!’

[@gailchancellor9491]

All gave some but some gave all. 🙏🥰

[@alexmctear5420]

Eric Bogle is a Scottish-born Australian folk singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to Australia at the age of 25, to settle near Adelaide, South Australia. Bogle's songs have covered a variety of topics and have been performed by many artists. Born: 23 September 1944 (age 79 years), Peebles Albums: Now I'm Easy, Scraps of Paper, The Source of Light, MORE

[@robertSibley-t3b]

The song is not from HIS personal experience but from what he knew of the campaign.

[@billmac57]

Really like Eric Bogle, Green Fields of France is another of his songs which you should give a listen. Another of his songs, One Small Star was written after the Dunblanne Massacre and its so moving

[@MarkCockerill-r9t]

This song always brings tears to my eyes as a proud Australian thinking about what our diggers (soldiers) went through so we could live free.

[@Simon-b9g]

I'm 56. Ive started regularly attending the Anzac Dawn Service in Sydney; getting up at 3am to get there. Thank you for listening to this song.

[@derekstephen2508]

We've always fought, and we're good at it, Aussies don't like to lose, regardless

[@bernadettelanders7306]

I always think of my grandmother, she lost her brother in ww1. She never spoke of it but the family have all the horrific war details how my great uncle died from writing of eye witnesses. He was shot and died instantly on 4th Oct 1917. Of course I never met him but I know him from what they wrote in the local newspaper where he lived here. A sad waste of a beautiful soul, but we have his photo in his uniform.. he’s gone but still never forgotten.

[@brucelamberton8819]

The Anzacs were all volunteers. Nearly 40% of all eligible men in Australia "answered the call" and it was a similar story in New Zealand . One in three were killed or wounded, a terrible price for two countries that only had small populations - we effectively lost an entire generation. This is why Anzac Day and this song mean so much to us.

[@Sheryl-g4p]

Watching you when it started smiling, I didn’t think it would take long for them to disappear. This is a very powerful song brings tears to most Aussie eyes. Thank you for your reaction which was done with respect

[@ChrisBright-qj6yx]

It's not from his personal experience of WW1 (he was born in the 1940s) but his experience of the ANZAC commemorations each ANZAC day. Thank goodness he got 1bit wrong. Young people do remember the sacrifice of our young Australians involvement in WW1 and all other conflicts we have been involved in.

[@anitabeattie2998]

this song is played at Ancaz Day Services... Eric Bogle was quite a popular folk musician in Australia during the 70s and 80s.. I am very blessed to have been taken to Eric Bogle and bands concert., by parents and all my siblings..Eric Bogale actually spotlight our family, and got everyone to cheer for the beautifully behavioured church mouse children, that no one knew where there........... Review his song A Reason For it All..... that's the most tear jerker he's written...and Scraps of Paper.... Listen to his whole album Scraps of. Paper

[@Bad.BadLeroyBrown]

was interesting watching you expressions as the song played along, started happy but went to the expression of of compassion (sad), pleased that you can feel that compassion for the sadness of this song.

[@HughDevine]

Have a listen to Liam Clancy sing this song, Eric Bogle said it was the best version of his song he ever heard.

[@sliobutros6664]

Thank you hunterz, it's the first time I see people feeling like me when listening to this great song....❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@JohnMoran-g5e]

You are a lovely couple, thank you for a sensitive, genuine reaction, I teared up. Keep up the good work 😊

[@ssvr3dl1n38]

This is such an emotional song. What some don't realise is that war impacts not only the individual, but family, friends & loved-ones who are left behind. My grandfather lost two of his three brothers in WWII. I only found out well after his passing that his aloof and quite distant nature while he was alive was related to that. He and his brothers had all drawn straws on who was to go to war while only one of them would stay to help their parents on the family farm. My grandfather (the oldest of all brothers) drew the 'short straw' and was devastated he could not be there to help protect his younger siblings. When two of them were killed in action, it tore him apart and partly blamed himself to the point his youngest brother was that worried about him that he went AWOL and came home to be with his oldest brother and comfort him (he was incidentally taken back by MPs to see out his duties. It told me volumes about why he was the man he was and why he seemed so sad and distant at times. When I hear this song it makes me sad and shed a tear for how much pain, suffering, loss and lack of respect our soldiers endured, but also for those like my grandfather who's loss, pain and suffering was felt for a lifetime thereafter! 😞💙

[@karenstrong8887]

More men in Australia enlisted to go to war per Capita than any other Country. They were slaughtered when they were ordered to take the beach and the hill behind in Gallipoli. So many never came home. The Turkish people were following orders and they are now our friends. Many Australian’s travel to Gallipoli every ANZAC Day where there is a war memorial built for us and New Zealand with the names of those lost for a dawn service. Every City and almost every town in Australia has a Returned and Services League Club. Every night of the year we stand, the lights are dimmed and the Ode is said. There is one minutes silence to now remember every war but I believe it belonged to our ANZAC’S. I know it off by heart because I worked in a big one 6 nights a week, this is the Ode. We shall grow not old As we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them Nor the years condemn At the going down of the sun And in the morning We will remember them Silence Lest we forget. We will never forget.

[@sylviakriven4855]

Lest we forget

[@rodgerarne1437]

I worked at an RSL Club for many years, and a highlight was being able to recite the Ode at 6PM on a number of occasions. Lest we forget.

[@suemoore984]

@@karenstrong8887 They shall grow not old...

[@bull3eye890]

I remember as a young kid they’d always have someone’s grandfather that was an Anzac wheeled out on stage to say a few words on the Anzac day commemoration, the actual day being a public holiday. They always spoke about the futility of war. I never got it back then but i do now. Schools everywhere should have veterans talking about the futility of war. It wouldn’t stop people signing up if their nation was invaded but it might stop them participating in the invasion of another nation.

[@ST-co7yt]

This song always bring a tear to my eyes everytime I hear it.

[@petersaxby9302]

This song always brings me to tears, and all I can think is why why why do we go off to war.

[@elizabethscott7660]

My daughter was born in 1983 in a tiny country hospital in New South Wales and the town's only doctor was a man who went to both world wars. He enlisted at 14 in ww1 and his experience inspired him to study medicine. When ww2 came he served as a medic. He was an amazing man and a brilliant doctor. Kind, generous, rib cracking funny, yet no nonsense and stern when required. I was blessed to have some very honest talks with him and I realised that he didn't experience any trauma or flashbacks from his experiences. I asked him once how it was he wasn't left mentally scarred as so many were, and after some reflection he simply shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't know. I think he was just an extraordinary human and I loved that man. As did the whole town. War could have destroyed him. Instead it shaped him into a true humble hero.

[@veridian79]

Most of those blokes just got on with it, I asked my father if it ever worried him and he said "No'' but he did think of certain actions or events but it didn't haunt him. In his later years he told me a few of those instances,

[@brigiddinsmore]

My late father was born in 1901 and was in the tail-end of the 1st W W. He was in the 2WW and thank God he survived. He never spoke about it.

[@rossbailey9093]

ANZAC Day is celebrated every April 25th in New Zealand. A public holiday, a very well attended dawn parade in every town and city.

[@goldenchild4835]

So sad. My great uncle, a Scot, came to Australian married and had two sons. His youngest just eighteen months old when my great uncle volunteered and was sent to Gallipoli as part of the Ist Btn, an ANZAC. He was wounded but managed to keep himself alive until he was seriously wounded in May 1918 at Ypres. He was repatriated to England but died from complications. Back home in OZ his eldest son died a few month later aged 5, his youngest sonwould join the 2nd AIF in WW2 as an officer, and in sad irony he would die in 1943, also leaving behind two young children. My great aunt would never remarry. I remember her, when I was a young boy. She lived a long life, mostly alone.

[@michaelgreen2463]

Anzac Day is our awakening to be Australian,with hope for the future,for the sacrifices good men paid the ultimate price,lest we forget.❤

[@ahoytheremate1954]

you guys bought me to tears thank you for playing Eric ❤

[@davidberesford7009]

It is very moving. Well done on reacting to this. Keep Reacting!

[@stevenlaurenson3755]

Eric Bogle is my old school mate Graham Bogle's uncle, he emigrated to Australia from Scotland when he was 25, check out The Green fields of France too.

[@louisehill5896]

I love that you guys do your best to explain the backstory, rather than just guess....

[@GenerationGap69]

It pains me to think that we are still killing each other and that we haven’t learned anything from all the fighting and wars around the world. “Lest We Forget”

[@AussieTVMusic]

One of the best anti war songs ever written

[@stevegraham3817]

Happy ANZAC Day isn't the right wording, but we do appreciate the sentiment you were trying to get across, there is no real word for wishing everyone a peaceful day, or to be at peace, on such a sad and special day. We Observe ANZAC Day and Commemorate the Gallipoli Landing, in a similar way that the US commemorates Memorial Day. The World also Observes Veterans Day in the US, Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth Countries, and Armistice Day in Europe, on the 11th of the 11th with 1 or 2 minutes Silence at 11:00am, signifying the end of WW2. Some countries vary the 11th of the 11th to more significant dates to them, and most countries also have their own version of commemoration of the military personnel and animals that have served, again on significant days to them.

[@neilt6480]

Well said Steve. It's definitely not a happy day; ANZAC day is the most solemn day on the Aussie calendar. We don't glorify and celebrate violence and war anywhere near as much as so many Yanks seem to do. Even though our politicians have been enthusiastic little puppies following the Yanks into nearly all of their adventures since WWII.

[@angusmckenzie9622]

This is a song of the experience of a newcomer experiencing Anzac Day for the first time. By 1971, Anzac Day had evolved from a commemoration of young blokes dying in war and a fledgling nation standing up on the World stage, identity, to a unifying acknowledgment of the uniqueness of our culture, irreverent, egalitarian yet compassionate in mateship. This is performed the year before the 1972 election of the Whitlam-led ALP government, which blew open Australia to the world, transforming the country into a noted world citizen. The Arts, education, multiculturalism, pride in achievement, death of the White Australia Policy, the blokes brought home from Vietnam, the place jumped, such an exciting time, young Australians, drawn to London for its bright lights and wonder, flocked home to be part of the boom. Bogle's music described the best of the emergent, colonial Australia before the cultural revolution. Top 'er up, barman. Disclaimer: Whitlam turned me from a conservative voter to a Labour/Labor voter, Rudd-Gillard turned me back.

[@peterharrison511]

You head bangers playing this makes me smile I love diversity

[@tubecat101]

The Pogues do the best cover of this. An Irish band from London doing a great rendition of an Aussie song that was written by a Scotsman. Believe it.

[@ghas2429]

Scraps of paper .. The Album .. brilliant work by Eric Bogle .. Scraps of paper,... A reason for it all ,[ about Clare Campbell .. who died in her home and was not discovered for over a yeari]... .....He's nobody's moggy anymore ..etc etc .. brilliant song writer .. brilliant voice !!

[@benfox5470]

01.11.24 in tears song gets me every single time to hunt ten and peg need both legs and no one will march anymore especially

[@jarrodrainbow4435]

Ahh. This gets me every time!!!!

[@JennyMillikan]

Every 25th April, Anzac Day, RIP never forgotten

[@michaelgreen2463]

It’s the unofficial anthem for Australia,an still makes many Australians cry.

[@peterg219]

Thanks Suzie and Travis, nicely felt and expressed. I like you guys. 🙃Cheers from Sydney, AU.

[@susa1969]

Lest we forget

[@JusCals]

As real as it gets....

[@waynebohardy2180]

So powerful, and beautifully performed. We sometimes choose to forget the reality that veterans have to live with. Sad, really.

[@KelpieDog]

BTW, have alisten to "I was only 19" by Redgum. This was my era.

[@darrylguise8493]

Tomorrow morning I will be going for a bike ride with my daughter (as we do every Sunday) and our route will take us right past the memorial to the Turks - (the enemy in this song) - on Anzac Parade in Canberra.

[@Jesusfreak-m3x]

It has been called the best anti-war song ever. You should listen to Slim Dusty et alla and the closing ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics as they do "Waltzing Matilda" to get a hint of what the song means to Australians.

[@guybonfiglio5899]

Lest we forget.

[@GTO-g8h-r2d]

Travis Suzi we love you so much to. SEE YA.

[@CQuinnLady]

I cry for all those lost. This is fitting for all war, its pointless and horrendous and scarring for generations. Just hearing the words "waltzing Matilda" takes me home no matter where I am.

[@sylviakriven4855]

Vale John Munro (he was playing the guitar). A gentle gentleman and exceptional musician

[@Prsboy78]

As many have mentioned Anzac Day is 25th April and that day to me starts by getting dressed and wearing my grandfathers war medals and heading to our local war memorial for the Dawn service (at dawn on 25th April the Anzacs landed on Gallipoli cove and were slaughtered much like the later D DAY landing). Later that day we return (my kids wear their school uniform and I wear my firefighter's dress uniform) dressed in uniform with posthumous medals and medals earned to attend the march. The marching band plays Waltzing Matilda and we march through the centre of town with returned soldiers, grouped services (fire and Rescue, RFS, SES, Police and Ambulance along with schools in our area) as we march through the main street the residents of the town stand and clap then follow us to the cenotaph (war memorial) for the service. We recognise the sacrifices that the Anzacs and everyone that has served in all wars. Lest we forget

[@stuartgraham9329]

I went to Gallipoli in 2013 and stood on the sand at Anzac Cove, the primary landing beach for the Australian forces. They we’re looking up a 45* hill with entrenched fighters at the top. Absolute and utter suicide. There were troops whose job it was to drag the dead bodies out of the way so some other poor soul could take his place. We lost 60,000 and the Turkish lost 62,000. You can feel their ghosts when you walk around there.

[@jennymagidson1925]

Probably one of the very best anti-war song ever written. I prefer the Pogues version, but both are heartbreaking.

[@alimac1469]

I cry every time.

[@markjohnston9017]

Waltzing your matilda refers to swagman of old, of walking the country and outback, looking for work with their matilda (pack, swag) on their back.

[@stevenmiller5088]

Remember I was only 19 reaction ,just thought id throw this out there … there’s a movie its a true movie its real tells the story in Vietnam of the battle that made I was only 19 the soldiers told what happened and Australia film corporation told it true to life as could it can be found in prime videos . The name of the movie is called danger close [the battle of long tan ] I throughly recommend it it brings home the red gum I was only 19 song true meaning what these men endured what still haunts them . Truefully I cried but it’s good to get it all out after feeling this battle and drives home wars are ugly and they should never ever be endured .. please watch maybe you could follow with a reaction just to give some soldiers the recognition they deserve and I’m talking both sides of a ugly conflict …

[@natashagreen6860]

Lest we forget ❤️

[@bradleyedwards9244]

As a 56 yr old l am blessed to have avoided war but as l put myself in the place of our aussie ancestors l am not ashamed to say this moved me to tears.God bless these poor soles forced into war❤

[@tonydoran5147]

It's actually April 25th each year!! ..

[@brettbridger362]

They are called picks. You will some times see special names like 'thumb picks' or 'finger picks' used for some of them.

[@TechnikMeister2]

Australia's Memorial Day is Anzac Day...25th April. It was the 25th April in 1916 that the evacuation from Anzac Cove, Gallipoli took place. only 50% came home. We do not celebrate Anzac Day. Shops and businesses shut and schools close, and from dawns early light we gather together, weep and remember. Every Anzac Day there is s dawn service somewhere all around the world, but at Anzac Cove with representatives of Australia New Zealand and Turkey, its the big one. It's a right of passage for our young people to attend this once in their lives, because the dead are buried there where they fell as is our tradition. And in the horror of what happened, Australia and Turkey are bonded by the blood shed there and we weep for them to. At the inauguration of modern Turkey in 1922, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk stood at Anzac Cove and said these famous words that binds our nations: "Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours ... You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well." It's also the event that locked Australia to New Zealand and its where the word Anzac came from. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. If you ever come and visit Australia, come for Anzac Day and stand with us at the Cenotaph in Sydney for the dawn service. It starts at 4,30am and the solemn parade lasts till noon. Veterans from all our wars march in their old units and crowds gather 20 deep for a mile or more as they pass in reverence. In this country, there is no greater hero than a soldier who fought his duty in a far away land.

[@glengoldwater1749]

If you guyss want to find what he was singing about, do a internet search for 'Gallipoli' that'll put the song in context.

[@nevillemignot1681]

It is amazing to me why this song is so admired by the anti-war people and loved by Australians, seeing it was written by a Scottish migrant. There must be one thread of compassion that binds it all together.

[@neilstrang8855]

There’s an American version which is sung by a college choir. Very moving

[@digger1610]

Lest We Forget

[@ahoytheremate1954]

i know Eric he was a great bloke i met him at the Newcastle folk club in new south wales just to name 1

[@michaelgreen2463]

Always in tears hearing this great song,I’m glad you enjoyed it.

[@chillybogart8165]

Respect to your lost family to war. REMEMBER.

[@blueyfromoz4815]

It's April 25th. ANZAC's lost 50,000 men from April 1915 to February 9th 1916. Lost 2000 men on the first day of the landings. Winston Churchill was in charge of the Gallipoli campaign.

[@bronwynmarsh4124]

❤❤ I love that you mixed up the date, given the time difference & the wrong date you were given. 25.5(April, cause I know you silly buggers put the month first🤯💩) I bet you have great intuition! I love you guys! Love! Love! Love! 😂😂😂 XX from Oz.👍👍🇦🇺🦘😘

[@brycejames8770]

ANZAC Day is the 25 April. Lest we forget.