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Stephanie Gardiner

'Jam packed with love': the story of the Anzac biscuit

The Anzac biscuit is a staple for Australians and New Zealanders during April commemorations. (Stephanie Flack/AAP PHOTOS)

Young digger Paul Teesdale Smith wrote to his girlfriend from Gallipoli, describing care packages filled with biscuits, peanuts, butterscotch, cigarettes and socks.

"It's wonderful how little things, no matter what they are, break the monotony," Private Teesdale Smith said in the 1915 letter.

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