The kids that ‘don’t forget Australia’
IT could be a schoolyard anywhere in Australia. But this village in France owes us a debt of gratitude that local children remember almost 100 years on.
Anzac Centenary
Australia’s century of war and peace
INTERACTIVE MAP: For more than a century, Australians have been at the centre of the world’s worst wars and lingering trouble spots, from Anzac to Afghanistan — see where our Diggers did their duty
Centenary exhibition captures spirit of our brave Anzacs
IT was just a young boy’s curiosity, but Chris Colyer’s act as an eight-year-old preserved a bit of Australia’s war history — and it’s now part of a national exhibition that’s come to Adelaide.
Last to die: final seconds of war
THIS was the last man killed in WW1, seconds before the guns fell silent 97 years ago. Even his enemies — who knew it was all over — tried to spare him.
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The nurses who exposed a scandal
AT Gallipoli, the War Office provided one 400-bed hospital ship for wounded Anzacs. It was the birth of a scandal which embarrassed the British military authorities.
Anzac Day Tweets won’t be forgotten
AUSTRALIANS can add their voices to history on the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings with #AnzacDay tweets.
Tight-knit community’s fight for freedom
THE small tight-knit community of Clarendon lost six of its sons in World War I. Among the dead were two sets of brothers. They were among 37 men who enlisted from the area.
Who’s not going to Gallipoli, and why
CHANNELS Seven and Nine are sending some of their big names to Gallipoli for the Anzac centenary commemorations. But others have been left at home. Here’s why.
Anzac memories bloom anew
A FLOWER bed created 100 years ago in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden to honour Anzac soldiers has been replicated for centenary commemorations.
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.
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.
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.
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