GUEST BLOG: Joe Trinder – Every ANZAC Day we pretend that our nation was forged in a failed maritime invasion of Turkey

By
The Daily Blog
-
11
36

Every ANZAC Day we pretend that our nation was forged in a failed maritime invasion of Turkey.

We adopt historical amnesia of the men woman and children that fought for their country on the battlefields of the New Zealand wars they are rarely mentioned at the cenotaphs every ANZAC parade.

As the 3rd generation to serve my country in the Navy I hope this will change in my lifetime.

 

- Sponsor Promotion -

Joe Trinder is an activist and MANA movement member

11 COMMENTS

  1. Spot on Joe Trinder.

    As a 67 year old, I am pissed off as a high school student in the 1960’s, I was never taught a damn thing about our NZ wars, but we were sure taught about WW1 and WW2 .

    My father was in the desert in WW2 ( Batman to one of the NZ Generals ) and an uncle was a prisoner of war in one of the german pow camps ( Captured on Crete ) and came home a very changed man.

  3. My uncle fought in Europe and died in a tank in southern Italy at the end of WW2. It always surprises me the way the media & the government focus on Anzac when the key battles in the Pacific, the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway remain relatively unknown. At least history students in senior school learn about the NZ wars and James Belich’s TV series has brought some of those events to wider audiences.

    • This is hardly surprising as NZers were hardly involved in those campaigns and NZers are usually not interested in anything not involving NZers. Even the Gallipoli story is told solely in through the eyes of NZers – it might come as a surprise to them that the British, French, Indians and Gurkas were involved at all (and some were actually part of the ANZAC force!). I can never find a book in my local libraries about Gallipoli that deals with the non-NZer aspect of this brutal failure. The MSM is absolutely hopeless too – the TV1 news show last night headed its report about ANZAC Day with images of pith-helmeted troops going “over the top”, presumably thinking they were gallant ANZACS. Actually they are the despised (by NZers) British Royal Naval Division troops!

  4. Interesting point. There’s no reason ANZAC Day shouldn’t remember all of the New Zealanders that died in battle. It would be good to see the New Zealand wars incorporated into the day

  7. The prime Minister of NZ was Massey a professed British Israelite.

    It is significant in the lead up to WWI that preparations had begun in NZ as Massey declared war right after Britain.

    That and the Balfour agreement spell out who was behind the was.

    Who profited.

    massey was not working for NZ.

    john key was not working for NZ.

Comments are closed.