About: I ANZAC Corps

An Entity of Type: Corps, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The I ANZAC Corps (First Anzac Corps) was a combined Australian and New Zealand army corps that served during World War I. It was formed in Egypt in February 1916 as part of the reorganisation and expansion of the Australian Imperial Force and the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) following the evacuation of Gallipoli in December 1915. Along with the II ANZAC Corps, it replaced the original Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). The corps initially participated in the defence of the Suez Canal before being transferred to the Western Front in France and Belgium in late March 1916. Later in 1916 the New Zealand Division was removed from I ANZAC's order of battle, swapping with II ANZAC's Australian 4th Division.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The I ANZAC Corps (First Anzac Corps) was a combined Australian and New Zealand army corps that served during World War I. It was formed in Egypt in February 1916 as part of the reorganisation and expansion of the Australian Imperial Force and the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) following the evacuation of Gallipoli in December 1915. Along with the II ANZAC Corps, it replaced the original Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). The corps initially participated in the defence of the Suez Canal before being transferred to the Western Front in France and Belgium in late March 1916. Later in 1916 the New Zealand Division was removed from I ANZAC's order of battle, swapping with II ANZAC's Australian 4th Division. In November 1917, I ANZAC ceased to exist when the Australian infantry divisions in France were grouped together as the Australian Corps and the New Zealand Division, then part of II ANZAC Corps, was allocated to a British corps. (en)
dbo:activeYearsEndYear
  • 1917-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:activeYearsStartYear
  • 1916-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:battle
dbo:commandStructure
dbo:militaryUnitSize
  • 3infantrydivisionsand support elements
dbo:notableCommander
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:type
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 455117 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 21898 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1116350336 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:allegiance
  • British Empire (en)
dbp:battles
dbp:caption
  • Gunners from the Australian 4th Division during Third Battle of Ypres October 1917 (en)
dbp:commandStructure
dbp:country
  • Australia (en)
  • New Zealand (en)
dbp:dates
  • 1916 (xsd:integer)
dbp:identificationSymbolLabel
  • Unit colour patch (en)
dbp:imageSize
  • 275 (xsd:integer)
dbp:notableCommanders
dbp:size
  • 3 (xsd:integer)
dbp:type
dbp:unitName
  • I ANZAC Corps (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The I ANZAC Corps (First Anzac Corps) was a combined Australian and New Zealand army corps that served during World War I. It was formed in Egypt in February 1916 as part of the reorganisation and expansion of the Australian Imperial Force and the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) following the evacuation of Gallipoli in December 1915. Along with the II ANZAC Corps, it replaced the original Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). The corps initially participated in the defence of the Suez Canal before being transferred to the Western Front in France and Belgium in late March 1916. Later in 1916 the New Zealand Division was removed from I ANZAC's order of battle, swapping with II ANZAC's Australian 4th Division. (en)
rdfs:label
  • I ANZAC Corps (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • I ANZAC Corps (en)
is dbo:commandStructure of
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:commandStructure of
is dbp:commands of
is dbp:parent of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License