ANZACS in Vietnam ANZAC Day 2022 Tribute

ANZACs in Vietnam LEST WE FORGET My ANZAC DAY 2022 Tribute, features I Was Only 19 (revised version since RedGum) performed by John Schumann and The Vagabond Crew. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) was a First World War army corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, formed in Egypt in December 1914, and operating during the Gallipoli campaign. The spirit of the ANZACs continues to this day. Over the course of the Vietnam war, almost 550 service personnel from New Zealand and nearly 60, 000 Australians, saw active duty between1962 and 1975 not all were volunteers. In Australia, despite numerous protests; a conscription ballot of men born between January to June 1946, were forced to fight in Vietnam. Unlike previous wars; many allied veterans across the globe, returned home to a less than welcoming Anzac day broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping op