_The Evening Post_, 27 April 1925:
GALLIPOLI, FRANCE, FLANDERS,
AND EGYPT
COMMEMORATION OF NOBLE
SACRIFICES
SATURDAY’S SOLEMN SERVICES
Ten years have passed since the Landing at Gallipoli, and a little more than six years and five months since there was quiet in reality on the Western Front, but to those who had some hand in the stirring scenes of wartime it seems as if they were enacted but yesterday.…
Throughout the crowded, solemn, and impressive services held in #Wellington and all over the Dominion on Saturday, Anzac Day, the principal theme was the call to service, which was the lesson handed down by those who had fallen in the conflict, or who had cheerfully borne with wounds and sickness in order that a false philosophy and a flaunting bid for world domination might be successfully withstood. Grief, poignant but proud, still evidenced the bitter sense of loss felt by those whose loved ones had been borne away, but withal there was dominant the note of anticipation of that promised time when swords shall be beaten into ploughshares, when the last enemy, Death, shall be overcome, when wars throughout the world shall cease, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
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