Почтовые марки Австралии

Почтовые марки Австралии

Почтовые марки Австралии

Почтовые марки Австралии

Moments to Treasure

Release date: 5 February 2019

Australia Postage Stamp

Casey Research Station: 50 Years stamps

Почтовые марки Австралии

Почтовые марки Австралии

Australia Remembers in a year of peace

On the morning of Sunday 25 April 1915, Australian and New Zealand troops entered their first major engagement of World War I – the landing at Gallipoli and attempted capture of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). A failure in military terms, the campaign took eight months and cost more than 8,100 Australian lives.

Even though World War I was still raging, memorialisation of the gallant efforts of the Anzacs at Gallipoli began as early as September 1915. In Adelaide, South Australia, a monument was unveiled, and a carnival was organised to raise money for wounded servicemen on a day known as “Anzac Day”, as voted via a public competition. Melbourne also observed an Anzac Remembrance Day on 17 December 1915.

However, it was in Queensland, in early 1916, that 25 April (the date of the Gallipoli landing) was proposed as Anzac Day on an ongoing basis, the idea formed by a public committee with the support of the Queensland government, with other states in Australia invited to take part. The purpose of the day was to encourage the public to raise funds for returned servicemen and was marked by a variety of small ceremonies and services in Australia, a march by the “Knights of Gallipoli” through London, and a sports day in the Australian camp in Egypt. Throughout the war Anzac Day continued to combine public mourning and commemoration with a message of imperial loyalty, national pride and an encouragement to enlist. By 1918 Anzac Day not only commemorated Gallipoli but campaigns in the Middle East and on the Western Front as well.

The first Anzac Day in peacetime occurred in 1919, just prior to the signing of the Treaty at Versailles. Continued were the traditions started at the first Anzac Day, including services and marches, although many servicemen had still not returned home to take part. The “homecoming” process was a protracted one; the last major transports arriving in Australia in early 1920.

The Anzac Day 2019 stamp issue presents two colourful program covers from Anzac Day events held in 1919, a year in which peace was a key theme. The domestic-rate stamp features the cover of a booklet published by Victorian Branch of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors League for Anzac Memorial Day, 1919. Its content reflects on Australia’s contribution to the Great War and reiterates the League’s mission to look after returned servicemen and nurses as well as their dependants...........

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This stamp issue, illustrated by artist Kevin Stead, depicts representatives from the four main native bee families in Australia. These four bees vary in length between one and two centimetres.