The
2010 ANZAC Day Poster
The poster features a striking image of members of the Australian
and New Zealand Army Corps – the ANZACs – of the 1st
Divisional Signal Company as they are towed towards Anzac Cove
at 6 am on the morning of 25 April 1915, in what would have
been terrifying moments before they landed on the shores of
the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Underneath
that image is juxtaposed a photograph of the peninsula as
it stands on Anzac Day more than 90 years on – with thousands
of Australians and New Zealanders returning to that same shore-line
to remember the spirit and legend of the Anzacs.
Signaller Ellis Silas, who was on board the boat pictured
in the poster, described the landing that day:
“It
was a relief to get ashore; we are packed so tightly in the
boats and moreover so heavily laden with our kit that, had
a shot hit the boat, we should have no chance of saving ourselves
– it was awful the feeling of utter helplessness. Meanwhile
the Turks pelted us hot and fast. In jumping ashore I fell
over, my kit was so heavy; I couldn’t get up without
help… It was a magnificent spectacle to see those thousands
of men rushing through the hail of Death as though it was
some big game – these chaps don’t seem to know what
fear means…. The beach is littered with wounded, some
of them frightful spectacles; perchance myself I may at any
moment be even as they are.”