From schoolboy sailor to war hero
HERBERT Marshall was 15 when he joined the Royal Australian Navy in World War I, just four years older than great-great-granddaughter Bianca is now.
Anzac Centenary
Search to find fallen digger’s family
An ancestor of a fallen WWI digger from O’Halloran Hill is searching for his relatives in the hope they will attend the soldier’s Last Post ceremony this month.
Teen feels ancestor’s Anzac sacrifice
THE sacrifices of both soldiers and those left behind on the home front are the first things that come to mind on Anzac Day for 13-year-old Tanah Egan.
Message for Aussies at Gallipoli
OFFICIALS have a specific message for more than 8000 Australians set to attend the Anzac Day celebrations in Gallipoli next weekend.
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Tasmanian hero was the first to join
NEWSPAPERS all around Australia reported the death of Keith Heritage in 1916.
New name – first WWI serviceman killed
EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s Great War history is set to be rewritten to identify a sailor as the first to die in an Australian uniform in World War I.
‘Nothing but bloody murder’
IT was our greatest military failure. A one-sided slaughter as men armed only with bayonets fought for a patch of earth the size of three tennis courts.
Teen soldier’s remarkable message to parents
ON the way to fight in World War I, teen soldier Will Williams threw a comforting message, sealed in a bottle, from his ship into the ocean. What happened next was both extraordinary and tragic.
’Should the worst happen…’ It did
“SHOULD the worst happen” Australia would stand by Britain, said our soon-to-be prime minister. Within days, his words came horribly true.
‘Shoot me, shoot me,’ they would say
SEVEN decades ago Ron Ferguson sounded his bugle and raised the alarm on the biggest and deadliest prison break of WWII. He still remembers the machineguns firing.
WWI coin series minted in Perth
SEVERAL coins telling the story of Australia’s involvement in World War I will be released over the next five years.
Would you have had the courage?
IT’S the key question for so many people as we mark 100 years since WW1 began. In the search for answers, they are turning to their own history.
How we were dragged into war
ONE hundred years ago today Britain declared war on Germany, dragging Australia into WW1. These are five key moments that committed us to horror.
Why Anzacs will not be forgotten
IT’S easy to see why people who live in areas of Europe affected by World War I are so aware of their history.
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