THE NAME ANZAC: from The Story of The Anzacs

The name " Anzac," now perhaps the most important in Australasian history, came into being through a pure accident. At the Headquarters of the Australasian Army on the Peninsula was a signboard, A.N.Z.A.C. "Australian and New Zealand Army Corps." The soldiers soon applied the initials, and the word they spelt, to the place, and subsequently to the whole area of occupation, and from them the world learnt to do likewise.

These letters form a word that is now sacred to every true Australian and New Zealander, a word that will never die as long as we are a nation, a word that bring memories of deeds of bravery, of courage, of grim heroic determination; the courage that knows no fear; the determination that holds what it has, never mind at what cost and against what odds. In years to come, it will recall the memory of those brave lads who suffered, fought, and died on a far-off barren shore, for their Country and Empire.