‘Six before breakfast’ reunited
SIX Victoria Crosses were handed to British soldiers from the one regiment at the Gallipoli landings. Now, 100 years later, the medals have come home.
SIX Victoria Crosses were handed to British soldiers from the one regiment at the Gallipoli landings. Now, 100 years later, the medals have come home.
HE SURVIVED machine gun fire in France before going on to lead one of SA’s most prestigious schools, which is now researching th e more than 1000 alumni who served in The Great War.
AT GALLIPOLI, sleeping on sentry duty could get you shot — by your own side. On three occasions, soldiers were court-martialled and sentenced to death.
HIS war story is being retold through today’s social media and now Perth soldier Ellis Silas is to be permanently honoured in bronze.
AT age 99, Lottie Hooper went to her grave grieving for six brothers whom she believed had died in WWI — but family secrets may have hidden the truth.
AT age 99, Lottie Hooper went to her grave grieving for six brothers whom she believed had died in WWI — but family secrets may have hidden the truth.
THE Shrine is the altar of our secular church. Its siren call grows louder each year. No one orders these people to wake, some at 3am, for the dawn service.
THOUSANDS of South Australians gathered at war memorials around the state today as the nation’s Anzac legend approaches its centenary commemoration year.
THE crowd gathered at Gallipoli for the Anzac Day dawn service has been reminded of the sacrifice of the diggers who died on the Turkish peninsula in 1915.
IF YOU didn’t manage to get out of bed for the Dawn Service, we take you back. Here are 25 moving photos taken as the sun rose and Australia fell into silence.
UPDATE: BATHED in autumn sun, thousands of veterans and descendants took part in the Dawn Service and Anzac Day march.
Norlane is named after Norman Lane, who died an agonising death as a POW on the Burma-Thailand Railway. We share his story here.
WEST Australians spanning four generations of armed conflicts gathered in the darkness and joined together for an emotional Anzac Day dawn service.
MEET Chloe Marlow, the 11-year-old who wowed crowds with her rendition of the national anthem at the Kings Park dawn service. | Pictures
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