Anzac Centenary

DAY 3. ANZAC celebrations under way in Gallipoli, Turkey for 100th anniversary. Tourists arrive at ANZAC Cove by the busload.

Backpackers booted from Gallipoli

IT WAS the backpacker who created the pilgrimage to Gallipoli, but cashed-up Baby Boomers have pushed the youngsters out for the battle’s 100th anniversary.

ECEABAT, TURKEY - APRIL 22: Corporal Andrew Barnett of the Australian Army Band, who will play the bugle at the upcoming Dawn Service commemoration ceremony to honour Australian and New Zealand soldiers killed in the Gallipoli Campaign, stands at Anzac Cove on April 22, 2015 near Eceabat, Turkey. Allied and Turkish representatives, as well as family members of those who served, will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the campaign with ceremonies scheduled for April 24-25. The Gallipoli land campaign, in which a combined Allied force of British, French, Australian, New Zealand and Indian troops sought to occupy the Gallipoli peninsula and the strategic Dardanelles strait during World War I, began on April 25, 1915 against Turkish forces of the Ottoman Empire. The Allies, unable to advance more than a few kilometers, withdrew after eight months. The campaign cost the Allies approximately 45,000 killed and up to 200,000 wounded, the Ottomans approximately 85,000 killed and 160,000 wounded. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

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And they will stand beside me

AS the bugle blows today, Matt Deighton will bow his head with great pride and count the cost of war with intense sadness.

Anzac Day. Private Scott Gray is part of the Ready Battle Group at Enogerra Gallipoli Barracks. Pic Mark Calleja

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Ready to serve anywhere, anytime

THIS is the face of the next generation of Australia’s soldiers – strong, intelligent and ready to fight at a moment’s notice.

Photo of Cameron Baird provided by his best friend Christian Dyer. Cameron was the last digger killed in Afghanistan, the 40th. He received a posthumous VC earlier this year.

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We salute four of Gold Coast’s finest

Despite living in a part of the world so accustomed to laughter and sunshine there is courage in the hearts of Gold Coasters. We celebrate four of our most gallant war heroes.

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Windsor and District Historical Society has received a grant from Brisbane City Council which includes additional flagpoles with base art, new gardens and a cleaned back memorial. Judy Willis and Jenny Roemermann

Windsor memorial showcases indigenous contribution

THE contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service men and women in war is being recognised at a Brisbane memorial.

STRICTLY embargoed to April 19, 2015 Sunday TV Guides first use. Deadline Gallipoli's Sam Worthington. MUST CREDIT: Matt Nettheim

Worthington’s pride in war baby

SAM Worthington was so impressed with the script for Deadline Gallipoli he turned executive producer as well as actor in order to tell the story.

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The soldier atop the Coomera war memorial. It has been discovered that over the past several decades there were bullets fired into the memorial. Picture Glenn Hampson

Bullet holes found in Coomera memorial

YOU expect bullets to fly at war but not at a memorial to a conflict, however a northern Gold Coast cenotaph was once used for target practice

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ANZAC . Eunice (Ness) Paten and her brother in law Andrew Gordon Woodyard.

Ness led a dedicated battalion of carers

SHE went on to become the first nursing president of the Australian Nursing Federation, but it was caring for those on the frontline where Eunice Paten, and so many others, learnt the true cost of war.

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Caleb McClure, 14 from Werribee Victoria with the Nurse coin for the Anzac Coins promotion, this will be shared across the group. Each of them has a connection with a Digger family. Picture: Jonathan Ng

War heroes not restricted to battlefield

CALEB McClure says it is important we never forget the sacrifices our war heroes made – both in the trenches in and the makeshift hospitals.

National

02/04/15. World War I. He died of his wounds in Adelaide shortly after the war ended. His great, great, great grandson, Thomas Ollivier, was born on the 1st of April - 100 years after his great, great, great grandfather sailed off to war. Paul and Madi Ollivier with their newborn son Thomas. Pic. Noelle Bobrige

Anzac legacy remembered in birth of baby boy

ANZAC Day will be a time of mixed emotions for Tony Ollivier who will remember his grandfather while celebrating the recent birth of his grandson.

Logan

Logan City’s men of steel

A THREE-dimensional piece of art at Greenbank RSL will ensure the bravery of soldiers past and present will never be forgotten.

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Churchie student Ned Gaffney has been reading the World War 1 diary of his great great uncle William

Diary of a Gallipoli journey

A BRISBANE primary school pupil has shared his great-great uncle’s Gallipoli war diary with his class mates as they learn about the Anzac’s history.

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