This paper explores, with comparative and transnational lenses, the institutional, personal, and textual networks between Australia and New Zealand that have shaped Anzac as the predominant cultural memory of the national past over the past 50 years. Situating Anzac memory in its state context and a broader trajectory of violence, state-building and state management of memory, we can evaluate the settling and re-settling narratives, specific sites of memory, and the way in which claims of a national memory obscure imperial, racial, and familial ‘scales’ by which the war was experienced, imagined, and remembered.