ANZAC DAY

Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna has taken part in this year's commemoration of ANZAC Day organised by the Australian High Commission in Malta at the Pieta Military Cemetery. A wreath was laid at the foot of the Cross of Sacrifice at this cemetery by FWA. Present were Government representatives, foreign legations in Malta, ex-servicemen associations, and representatives of civil society.

Between 1915 and 1916, thousands of A.N.Z.A.C. wounded soldiers from Australia and New Zealand were treated or buried in Malta as a result of the disastrous Gallipoli and Dardanelles Campaigns in the Eastern Mediterranean. During that period, Malta was turned into a gigantic naval and military hospital base home to almost thirty hospitals earning her the much-deserved sobriquet of 'Nurse of the Mediterranean'.

ANZAC Day is marked every year on the 25th of April.