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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Australia commemorates war dead with few COVID restrictions

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Large crowds gathered in Australia on Monday to pay tribute to their war dead on Anzac Day largely free of pandemic restrictions for the first time since 2019.

Australia and New Zealand commemorate Anzac Day every April 25 — the date in 1915 when the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps landed in Turkey in an ill-fated campaign that was the soldiers’ first combat of World War I.

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