‘Six before breakfast’ reunited
SIX Victoria Crosses were handed to British soldiers from the one regiment at the Gallipoli landings. Now, 100 years later, the medals have come home.
Anzac Centenary
Students remember WW1 class
HE SURVIVED machine gun fire in France before going on to lead one of SA’s most prestigious schools, which is now researching th e more than 1000 alumni who served in The Great War.
The mystery men from WWI
A PORTRAIT of 178 Australian soldiers taken during World War One will go on display, in the hope that the public can help identify them.
Two minutes and you’re hooked
IF you truly have no spare time, don’t read this story. It exposes something special but hugely addictive. Two minutes will show you why.
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Lost soldiers found 98 years on
THEY vanished in a bloody battle almost 100 years ago. Now these “disappeared” soldiers of World War One have been brought back from the grave.
Go to jail or join the Navy
WHEN Ray McMinn was 14, a magistrate gave the tearaway from The Block in Sydney’s Redfern a choice. Go to jail or join the defence force.
Pilgrims reminded of Anzac sacrifice
THE crowd gathered at Gallipoli for the Anzac Day dawn service has been reminded of the sacrifice of the diggers who died on the Turkish peninsula in 1915.
25 moving photos of Dawn Service
IF YOU didn’t manage to get out of bed for the Dawn Service, we take you back. Here are 25 moving photos taken as the sun rose and Australia fell into silence.
Suburb’s namesake lost but not forgotten
Norlane is named after Norman Lane, who died an agonising death as a POW on the Burma-Thailand Railway. We share his story here.
Ray shares grandfather’s diary
Ray Anderson has an original WW1 diary written by his grandfather who served in the 29th Australian infantry Battalion, 8th Brigade, 1st AIF.
Six brothers in arms lost to war
EXCLUSIVE: ALMOST a century ago the seven sons of a humble rural couple Frederick and Maggie Smith marched off to the Great War.
Soldier’s legacy lives on in diaries
PRIVATE Jack Booth chronicled his time at Gallipoli, through battlefields and hospital beds until his luck ran out.
Dont let truth be casualty of Gallipoli
Anzac rhetoric tends to smother and often silence critical considerations of the place and effects of World War I in Australian history.
The economic devastation of war
THE Great War that erupted 100 years ago remains the single most cataclysmic event this nation has known, writes Jessica Irvine.
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