Now that's a curious piece of information ..... never knew there were ANZAC surveyors in Canada in WW1. Makes me wonder what actual units we are talking about, how they got there, how they got back to Oz and LOTLWC as the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps was formed in Egypt in December 1914, from elements of the AIF and the 1st NZ Expeditionary Force, for service in the Middle East and the Gallipoli Peninsula.
The town's website states:
" Anzac was established in 1917 as a stopping point on the Alberta Great Waterways Railway Line and was named after the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps that surveyed the area during World War I."
This deserves some investigating... anyone have any details on this I could follow up on, please?
Mike
Last edited by Mike Cecil; 23-04-17 at 20:53.
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