• The Australian National Capital's major ceremonial avenue is set along the magnificent land axis which forms a key feature of the original 1912 plan for Canberra by Walter Burley Griffin. The Parade is easily distinguishable, especially when viewed from Mt Ainslie. 

• It is seen here looking over the Stone of Remembrance at the AWM towards Parliament House in the distance.

• The red gravel (some say symbolising blood) and the mixed plantings of Australian Blue Gums (Eucalyptus bicostata) and New Zealand (Hebe) species is the element which links the Parliamentary Zone to the northern lakeshore.

• ANZAC Parade was officially opened on 25 April 1965 to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the ANZAC landing in Gallipoli. 

• ANZAC is the name given to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps soldiers who landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 and has since been expanded to include all war time servicemen from both countries.

• Commemorative events take place each year on ANZAC Day, and on Remembrance Day which commemorates the end of the 1914-1918 Great War, at the Stone of Remembrance in front of the Australian War Memorial. 

• The ANZAC Parade Open Day and other significant anniversaries attract crowds of visitors to the various memorials which line the Parade.

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• The memorials along Anzac Parade are: 
  • the Australia Hellenic Memorial, 
  • the Australian Army Memorial, 
  • the Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial, 
  • the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial, 
  • the Rats of Tobruk Memorial, 
  • the Royal Australian Air Force Memorial, 
  • Royal Australian Navy Memorial, 
  • the Australian National Memorial for Service Nurses  
  • the Kemal Ataturk Memorial and
  • the New Zealand Memorial.

• Memorials in other places include;
  • the Merchant Marine Memorial (AWM Canberra)
  • the Anzac Memorial in the grounds of Parliament

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Digger History:  an unofficial history of the Australian & New Zealand Armed Forces