Editing Anzac Day (section)

===France===
* In the town of [[Villers-Bretonneux]], the Australian government holds an annual dawn service.<ref name="dva.gov.au" /> For decades, the commemoration was organised by French locals (on the next closest weekend to Anzac Day) until the Australian government took over the organisation of an Anzac Day dawn service at the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux. Historian Romain Fathi has explained that several factors contributed to this "commemorative take-over", such as the need to have an official service in France, a deteriorating relationship with Turkey in the mid-2000s that jeopardised access to Anzac Cove, and associating Anzac Day with victory on the Western Front, rather than defeat at Gallipoli.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332905556|title=Our Corner of the Somme. Australia at Villers-Bretonneux|last=Fathi|first=Romain|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2019|isbn=978-1-108-47149-7|location=Cambridge|pages=144–148|access-date=15 November 2019|archive-date=4 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704005414/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332905556_Our_Corner_of_the_Somme_Australia_at_Villers-Bretonneux|url-status=live}}</ref> Indeed, in the Australian narrative of [[Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux|Second Villers-Bretonneux]], the town was re-taken on 25 April 1918, a symbolic anniversary. In fact, that operation was not finished until 27 April.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326009047|title="'They Attack Villers-Bretonneux and block the road to Amiens'. A French perspective on Second Villers-Bretonneux" In New Directions in War and History, Tristan Moss and Thomas Richardson (eds).|last=Fathi|first=Romain|publisher=Big Sky Publishing|year=2017|location=Newport|page=53|access-date=15 November 2019|archive-date=4 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704005343/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326009047_%27They_Attack_Villers-Bretonneux_and_block_the_road_to_Amiens%27_A_French_perspective_on_Second_Villers-Bretonneux|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The town of [[Fromelles]] holds an annual service at [[Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery|Pheasant Wood Military Cemetery]] where a few hundred lost Australian soldiers were reburied after being discovered nearby. The ceremony is attended by representatives of the Australian government and French military. [[Attack at Fromelles|The Battle of Fromelles]], an important battle for Australians, happened near the town.
* In France services are also held in the towns of [[Le Quesnoy]] and [[Longueval]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzembassy.com/info.cfm?c=6&l=37&CFID=524204&CFTOKEN=21702&s=bu&p=359|title=New Zealand/France Bilateral Relations " War Commemorations|work=NZ Embassy, [[New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade]]|access-date=10 May 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025121712/http://www.nzembassy.com/info.cfm?c=6&l=37&CFID=524204&CFTOKEN=21702&s=bu&p=359|archive-date=25 October 2007}}</ref> Since the 1990s, an Anzac Day service has also been held at Bullecourt, organised by local French authorities.
* In [[French Polynesia]], Anzac Day has been commemorated with an official ceremony held in [[Papeete]] since 2006.<ref name="tahitipresse">{{cite news|title=Anzac Day commemoration in Tahiti|url=http://www.tahitipresse.pf/index.cfm?snav=see&presse=27352&lang=2|work=[[Tahitipresse]]|date=24 April 2009|access-date=24 April 2009}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The 2009 ceremony was attended by [[French Polynesia President]] [[Oscar Temaru]], who praised the "courage and liberty" of Australian and New Zealand soldiers in a statement.<ref name="tahitipresse" />