Were the British to blame?
AS we mark 100 years since the desperate struggle at Lone Pine, there’s a thrilling debate happening in our AnzacLive blog right here, right now.
Anzac Centenary
Blood, bare hands and bayonets
IT was a warm summer’s afternoon when the whistles blew — and hundreds of Australians stormed a Turkish stronghold called Lone Pine.
Killer women struck from the trees
THEY hid in trees to pick off stragglers — and soldiers reported killing and capturing them. But did the mysterious women snipers of Gallipoli actually exist?
Simpson and his … possum?
THE best-known Aussie war hero was a Pom with controversial politics who was only there because a dodgy plan went wrong. And he had a possum before a donkey.
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The nurses who exposed a scandal
AT Gallipoli, the War Office provided one 400-bed hospital ship for wounded Anzacs. It was the birth of a scandal which embarrassed the British military authorities.
Anzac Day Tweets won’t be forgotten
AUSTRALIANS can add their voices to history on the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings with #AnzacDay tweets.
Tight-knit community’s fight for freedom
THE small tight-knit community of Clarendon lost six of its sons in World War I. Among the dead were two sets of brothers. They were among 37 men who enlisted from the area.
Who’s not going to Gallipoli, and why
CHANNELS Seven and Nine are sending some of their big names to Gallipoli for the Anzac centenary commemorations. But others have been left at home. Here’s why.
The diary of an Anzac love story
AMID the carnage, destruction and death of World War I, the love story of the digger and the army nurse sits like a rose among the thorns.
Anzac memories bloom anew
A FLOWER bed created 100 years ago in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden to honour Anzac soldiers has been replicated for centenary commemorations.
Singing from the heart for fallen schoolmates
FOR the valiant men buried in Ari Burnu, their constant, reassuring soundtrack has long been the lapping waves on Anzac Cove.
The man who saved the Anzacs
THEY called him ‘Birdy’, and amid the disaster of the Gallipoli campaign, he is remembered for one significant accomplishment, for which countless men owed him their lives.
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