Respect stands tall as we remember
ADELAIDE streets will today be filled with flashes of brilliant red as the city pays its respects to those who have served us in war, with a record number of poppies sold.
Anzac Centenary
Aussies to help Pozieres once again
IN just six weeks in 1916 more than 23,000 Australian troops were killed or wounded around Pozieres. Now a whole new generation is set to help the small French town.
Would you die for a story?
THEY are the game-changing moments of history — but for the men and women on the spot, they are laced with danger and moral dilemmas.
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.
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Binocular find sparks Coast search
IF THESE 100-year-old binoculars could talk, it would give insight into the man who carried it from Gallipoli to the Western Front.
Dialect from trenches a turn up for the books
IF YOU tell a mate their “blood’s worth bottling” while getting “blotto” with them, you are speaking the language Aussie Diggers created in World War I.
Class of her own at site which made a nation
ANNABEL Lane is in Turkey and will spend Anzac Day in Gallipoli after becoming the fifth girl from an Adelaide school in seven years to win the Premier’s Anzac Spirit School Prize.
Choir tunes up for Dawn Service
DIRECT descendants of original Anzacs who will sing at the Gallipoli Dawn Service have rehearsed at Anzac Cove.
Patriotic wordsmith pens Anzac poem
BRISBANE poet Mervyn Nielsen put pen to paper in a poem to mark the centenary of troops landing at Gallipoli.
Forgotten battle recalled by few
AS thousands commemorate the bloody beach landings at Anzac Cove, further along the peninsula there is a site of even greater horror that lies almost deserted.
Royal’s battlefield message survives test of time
ROYAL John George Myren kept a promise to his best friend Dick Robinson, who died in his arms at Gaza during World War I.
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.
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.
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