"Anzac Day"

To commemorate those Australians and New Zealanders who have served and died in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations, the Australian and New Zealand embassies came together to jointly host the 2021 virtual Anzac Day Commemorative Service at the Australian Embassy, Bangkok.

The Anzac Day ceremony at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery on April 25 marked those who died in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, principally in the Gallipoli landings in Turkey during the First World War and the Allied soldiers who died building the death railway between Thailand and Myanmar.

Tomorrow, April 25, is a national day in remembrance of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, or Anzac, of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the First World War and is being marked by both the Kiwi Pub on Sukhumvit Soi 8 and the Australian Pub & BBQ on Sukhumvit Soi 11.

Each year I join fellow Australian war veterans in visiting Hellfire Pass and the Kanchanaburi Cemetery for the Anzac Day services.