Women’s war stories put to song, dance
A MUSICAL telling the stories and struggles of women whose husbands have served in conflicts past to present is showing in Brisbane in April.
Anzac Centenary
Children put the music into Anzac Day
RESIDENTS of a Brisbane retirement village will receive a special Anzac concert from children wearing replica Light Horse slouch hats.
Brisbane veteran takes Anzac tribute to new heights
BRIAN Freeman‘s Anzac centenary goals cover it all — physical challenges, informing the masses and fundraising $2 million.
Students set to visit Gallipoli
HIGH School students from across the country are hoping to experience the full emotion of the historic Anzac centenary commemoration during a tour of Gallipoli and the Western Front.
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The shot at Sarajevo
THE assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, occurred more by chance than by good planning.
New name – first WWI serviceman killed
EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s Great War history is set to be rewritten to identify a sailor as the first to die in an Australian uniform in World War I.
Teen soldier’s remarkable message to parents
ON the way to fight in World War I, teen soldier Will Williams threw a comforting message, sealed in a bottle, from his ship into the ocean. What happened next was both extraordinary and tragic.
’Should the worst happen…’ It did
“SHOULD the worst happen” Australia would stand by Britain, said our soon-to-be prime minister. Within days, his words came horribly true.
‘Shoot me, shoot me,’ they would say
SEVEN decades ago Ron Ferguson sounded his bugle and raised the alarm on the biggest and deadliest prison break of WWII. He still remembers the machineguns firing.
Would you have had the courage?
IT’S the key question for so many people as we mark 100 years since WW1 began. In the search for answers, they are turning to their own history.
How we were dragged into war
ONE hundred years ago today Britain declared war on Germany, dragging Australia into WW1. These are five key moments that committed us to horror.
Gathering to remember the sacrifice
THE formal commemoration of Australia’s entry into World War I will be launched in Melbourne with events that aim to capture the spirit and sacrifice of the era.
How The Advertiser reported the start of WWI
SOUTH Australians first heard the world was at war 100 years ago with a solemn announcement in The Advertiser but it was not as we might imagine it would happen today.
Widows share their grief across decades of war
WIDOWS Florence Stuart and Melissa Dryden share the bond that ties all women married to the men who went to war.
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