The ANZAC Spirit refers to the National characteristics of Australian and New Zealand soldiers, specifically the qualities those soldiers are believed to have shown in World War I. The concept was first derived in the reporting of the Landing at ANZAC Cove by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett; as well as later on and much more extensively by Charles Bean. It is regarded as an Australasian legend, although its critics refer to it as a mythology. The ANZAC Spirit includes the notion of 'mateship' and cheerful suffering.
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