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Anzac Centenary

Loreto student, Annabel Lane PICTURED with a page from her project, a picture of Philip de Quetteville. Annabel has won The Premier's ANZAC Spirit School Prize and will join a small number of other students on a fully-funded two-week study tour of Gallipoli during the April school holidays. Annabel was selected because of her outstanding research of a South Australian who served at Gallipoli in 1915, Philip de Quetteville Robin who fought with the 10th Battalion at Gallipoli. Photographer EMMA BRASIER

Class of her own at site which made a nation

ANNABEL Lane is in Turkey and will spend Anzac Day in Gallipoli after becoming the fifth girl from an Adelaide school in seven years to win the Premier’s Anzac Spirit School Prize.

ANZAC 100th Gallipoli. All Hallow's and St Joseph's Gregory Terrace Colleges Choir in Brisbane Queensland, who will be performing at the Dawn Service preview one of their songs at Ari Burnu Cemetery. Picture: David Caird.

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Choir tunes up for Dawn Service

DIRECT descendants of original Anzacs who will sing at the Gallipoli Dawn Service have rehearsed at Anzac Cove.

Cpl Robert Chaffey Stuart MSM of the 13th Light Trench Mortar Battery. Photo Credit: Kerry Stokes Collection.

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Hunt to find families of lost SA Diggers

THE search is on to find the South Australian families of WWI soldiers identified from a collection of photographs described as one of the most important first world war discoveries ever made.

Merv Nielsen has wirtten a poem to inpsire the Qld Maroons in the third State of Origin game for the year. Photo by Andrew Seymour.

Patriotic wordsmith pens Anzac poem

BRISBANE poet Mervyn Nielsen put pen to paper in a poem to mark the centenary of troops landing at Gallipoli.

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Rising Suns crew members Captain Ben Vitale (left) and Captain Steve Madsen with the surfboat that will head to Turkey for the 'Gallipoli 100'.

Cove boat race to honour landing

EIGHT Australian Defence Force members will take to the waters of Turkey in April as part of the two-day Gallipoli 100 Surf Boat Race.

Victoria Matthews (front) with Michelle Smethurst and Kerri Thompson dressed in costume for the Shangri La Century of Heroes event - Picture: Richard Walker

Celebrating our heroes

DO you have any war memoribilia you’d like to share? Then a local restaurant and bar would like to hear from you.

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Garry Lopez served in the Vietnam War at Nui Dat (what he called the sharp end) and in Vung Tau (the blunt end) for 12 months as an electrician during the Vietnam War. May we please have a portrait of Garry with his medals at his home in Wynnum. Verts and Horis. Must Run for 100 days of ANZAC coverage. PLEASE FILE ASAP.

Unpopular war hard on soldiers

VIETNAM veteran Gary Lopez will march this Anzac Day while his proud grandchildren watch on. However it hasn’t always been a source of pride for Mr Lopez.

Clayfield College students who will visit Gallipoli this year. Victoria Lloyd

Students to retrace descendants’ steps

Their great-grandfathers may have served unknown to each other but their descendants will retrace their footsteps together.

Bruce Barker and Gary Lancaster will carry a brick inscribed with the name of one of the 7000 Queenslanders who died in World War I as part of the 100km World War I Queensland Challenge. Photo by Sarah Keayes

Bricks go bush to honour diggers

BRICKS will be carried 100km through rugged bush in Brisbane’s north to salute 7000 Queenslanders who died in World War I.

Tiffanie Turnbull, Burpengary, Last year she won a trip to go to Anzac Day commeorations at Gallipoli, she had a grandparent that fought there

Gallipoli trip “once in a lifetime”

NORTHPINE Christian College student Tiffanie Turnbull has reflected on the trip of a lifetime, after she won the chance to be at Gallipoli on Anzac Day.

Bluey Moss, Margate, his dad served in the Boer War and WWI. Bluey himself served in PNG and the air force

Bluey’s tales of war

MONALD “Bluey” Moss is a Digger with a very rich Australian military history and he’s as feisty as the day he signed up to serve his country.

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Theatre show sheds light on SA’s special six women in WW1

SOUTH Australian women proved a key force in Australia’s fight during WW1 and their sacrifice and dedication is at the centre of a new theatre show this week.

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