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# ANZAC - a New Zealand view
- URL: https://katecarruthers.com/anzac-a-new-zealand-view/
- Published: 2010-04-24T19:00:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-01T03:52:03.000Z
- Author: Kate Carruthers
- Tags: ideas, ANZAC, ANZAC Day, future, history, #Migrated-1775015344493, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-04-01 14:49

A good example of the fellow feeling across the Tasman for ANZAC day and all that it means is the speech by the New Zealand Governor-General, Dame Silvia Cartwright, at the 2004 ANZAC Day Dawn Service:

> "The presence of so many children and young men and women at ANZAC ceremonies is a stark reminder of the youth of those who fought for us. Look at them and wonder at the fears of their families, at their terror as they faced fierce fighting and watched their friends die. Listen to these words written to mark the evacuation in 1915, by a 23 year old Australian soldier-poet Leon Gellert, a combatant at Gallipoli.  
>  
> \[The Last to Leave, written by 23-year-old Australian soldier-poet Leon Gellert, a combatant at Gallipoli, to mark the evacuation of the peninsula in 1915.\]  
> **The guns were silent, and the silent hills**  
> **had bowed their grasses to a gentle breeze**  
> **I gazed upon the vales and on the rills**  
> **And whispered, "What of these?" and "What of these?"**  
> **These long forgotten dead with sunken graves,**  
> **Some crossless, with unwritten memories**  
> **Their only mourners are the moaning waves,**  
> **Their only minstrels are the singing trees**  
> **And thus I mused and sorrowed wistfully.**  
>  
> Lest we forget.  
>  
> No reira, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa."