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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Gallipoli 2015: We will be ready
THE Australian in charge of the Anzac Day centenary commemorations at Gallipoli next year has a simple message: “We will be ready”.
Survivors and the scars of battle
EVEN for those who returned, war took its toll. ANNE MATHER reports on the survivors of battle.
Why Anzac story WASN’T front page news
WHEN Queenslanders awoke to their morning newspapers on April 26, 1915, they would have been unaware that a legend had been born on the shores of Gallipoli, on the other side of the world.
Sombre salute to the first and the last
IF it’s possible to describe as lucky a young bloke thrown into the horrors of Gallipoli, then Ted Matthews was very fortunate indeed.
Bridge to become a canvas of courage
SYDNEY Harbour Bridge will be lit up with the images of 62,000 falling poppies — each one representing a Digger who died during WWI.
Anzac brides travel to Gallipoli
THE pilots and cabin crew of the specially named QF100 — after the centenary of Anzac Day — all have family links to the first Diggers.
These images strip away a century
THEY are just like us. Stunning video and photos vividly reimagine sepia WW1 soldiers as people of today — businessmen, workers and schoolboys.
Gallipoli iconic image that almost wasn’t
IT’S the image that embodies WWI for most Australians: thirty four years after Gallipoli, a star reveals how that famous frame almost didn’t happen.
A heroic war effort all round
SEVEN members of the Curtain family fought for God, Country and Empire, one in the Boer War and the remaining six in World War I.
The romantic side to our Anzacs
HUNDREDS of handwritten letters from the Gallipoli trenches under the pen of one of Queensland’s greatest soldiers goes beyond the heroism and bravery of frontline troops to reveal another side to our Anzacs.
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