The letter that changed history
“MURDER, scandals, arrogance.” This man’s bid to save an army from its commanders exposed a catastrophe and gave rise to a national legend.
Anzac Centenary
Nurses in footsteps of Anzac Girls
MODERN day ‘Anzac Girls’ gather in Greece to honour and mark 100 years since the first Anzac nursing contingent arrived to treat war wounded.
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‘Spending $100 million is over the top’
AUSTRALIA has spent five times the amount the UK has spent commemorating World War I, prompting criticism that the money could be better spent on our modern veterans.
Pozieres recalls Tassie sacrifice
A PHOTOGRAPH conveys the WWI sacrifice made by up to 550 Tasmanians in capturing Pozieres.
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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.
Labour of love
HALF a world away from the front lines, Harriet Bayly could still significantly aid the war effort, writes GILL VOWLES
Tensions on the homefront
SOLDIERS risked their lives overseas as families at home endured their own private hell, writes ANNE MATHER
Anzac descendants mobbed in Turkey
THE wives, sons and daughters and grandchildren of the first Anzacs were greeted like rock stars when they arrived in Turkey yesterday on the commemorative Qantas flight QF100.
MP: Scrap passports for crossing ditch
A NEW Zealand Minister has invoked the ‘Anzac spirit’ to call for passport-free travel for Australians and New Zealanders crossing the ditch.
One trip every Aussie should make
EVERY Aussie thinks they know this story. But there’s one truth that you can really only understand by being there.
Anzac stories take readers to war zone
WITH almost 40,000 followers across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram you’d expect a wide range of people loving AnzacLive — but perhaps not these two.
The day Iain knew he was a veteran
SITTING with an injured soldier in Afghanistan as his great grandfather’s stories from WWI spun through his head and chopper blades whirred over it, Iain Yarsley realised he too was a veteran.
Broken foot won’t halt RSL boss’s daunting feat
BRIGADIER Tim Hanna is the RSL’s man in command as SA mounts one of its biggest Anzac Day tributes — and ironically he’s currently one of the walking wounded.
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