Australian Governor-General David Hurley and Greek President Katarina Sakellaropoulou have turned the first soil on a $4.9 million Remembrance Trail on the Greek Aegean island of Lemnos, which served as a forward base for Anzac and allied troops in the Gallipoli campaign of 1915.
Governor General Sir David Hurley and President of Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou drop flowers at Australian Pier on Lemnos where advanced parties of Australian troops first arrived in 1915.
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