Anzac Day

Your guide to Anzac Day 2021 in Sydney and NSW including dawn services and marches.

Group portrait of non-commissioned officers, 12th Field Company Engineers, 4th Australian Division. Back row, left to right: 5449 Lance Corporal (l Cpl) A Randall; 3312 2nd Corporal W Irwin; 5079 L Cpl GT Lawry; 149 L Cpl AT Burton; 5073 l Cpl PD Kennedy; 5632 L Cpl J N Button; 2518 L Cpl JC Sloper; 2966 L Cpl WR Aexander; 2472 LCpl GT Cooper; 4238 L Cpl G Redman; 5067 L Cpl CA Guildford; 3356 2nd Cpl TB Hills. Middle row: 5638 L Cpl R Edwards; 3068 2nd Cpl A Easy; 374 Corporal W Simpson; 2991 2nd Cpl EC Cox; 3019 Cpl A Fry; 3122 Cpl MS Seddon; 2020 Cpl C Bowd; 378 Cpl DC Stewart; 5437 Cpl W Fleming; 2817 2nd Cpl HN Sarina; 5456 2nd Cpl CD Stewart. Front row: 6211 L Cpl AE Dean; 5461 Sergeant (Sgt) WHG Wakeham; 5463 Sgt T W Whitehead; 209 Company Quartermaster-Sergeant W Cridland; 3 Warrant Officer Class 1 A Thomson; 11 Farrier Sergeant J Longmore; 3352 Sgt WH Lister; 2525 Sgt E Wilkinson; 308 Cpl GE Gabreil. Absentees: 2964 L Cpl HC Armstrong; 2984 Sgt AE Cother; 2998 2nd Cpl HG Willey; 2069 L Cpl J Parker. Picture: Australian War Memorial.

A larrikin, a tunnel rat and a jaw-dropping act

How many Aussies does it take to surround and overcome 40 well-positioned enemy? Just two, if one of them is troublesome tearaway William Campbell.

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Herbert James Graham, killed at Fromelles in 1916. Picture: The Wellington Museum via The Fromelles Association.

‘Goosebumps’: Khaki lad found at last

A “dauntless lad in khaki” lost on one of Australia’s darkest days has finally been found and identified, alongside a digger shot dead on his 20th birthday as disaster unfolded around him.

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Swimmer Cecil Healy. p/(NB: Date unknown)

Olympic salute to fighting Aussies

The only Aussie Olympics gold medallist slain in battle and a local underground hero will be among those saluted when the Paris Games torch makes a stop at a small corner of Australia overseas.

Books

Korea, c. 1950-10. Wearing a singlet, 2/949 Corporal G.F. ('Fibber') McGee, a member of the Machine Gun Platoon, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), sits on the edge of a narrow slit trench or dugout and reads a book. Lying on the ground beside him (left) are a trenching tool, some ration boxes, a mug and a billy, while on the other side are some pouches, a slouch hat, a dixie and a pair of binoculars hanging from the barrel of his .303 rifle which is standing in the trench. At rear, some other soldiers are taking food out of ration boxes. Picture: Australian War Memorial

‘There is no forgetting this book’

From a novel that hooked an entire generation to true stories of extraordinary people in extraordinary times, these are the books our top authors recommend in the run-up to Anzac Day.

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25/4/22: John Wilkinson 101 who served in PNG and wanted to walk in the march at 101 with his daughter Susie at the Anzac Day March in Sydney. John Feder/The Daily Telegraph

WWII sergeant Jock rises up for Anzac march

In the final hundred metres of Sydney’s Anzac Day march, 101-year-old World War II veteran John ‘Jock’ Wilkinson made a silent pledge with himself to rise from his wheelchair.

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