WWII words upset China, South Korea
PROTESTS erupted after Japan was accused of failing to apologise to China and South Korea, as Australians joined the world on the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.
Anzac Centenary
Pretty Lone Pine hides battle scars
A HUNDRED years on since the battle of Lone Pine and the place is picture postcard perfect but the scenery hides the true story of the place our Anzacs knew.
Were the British to blame?
AS we mark 100 years since the desperate struggle at Lone Pine, there’s a thrilling debate happening in our AnzacLive blog right here, right now.
Blood, bare hands and bayonets
IT was a warm summer’s afternoon when the whistles blew — and hundreds of Australians stormed a Turkish stronghold called Lone Pine.
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‘Fighting Gunditjmara’ refused to die on foreign soil
A DAWN service at the Aborigines Advancement League on Anzac Day will commemorate those who fought for Australia before they were even counted as citizens.
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.
Gallipoli 2015: We will be ready
THE Australian in charge of the Anzac Day centenary commemorations at Gallipoli next year has a simple message: “We will be ready”.
Keeping the Anzac legacy afloat
WHEN this Sunbury couple decided to give something back to the Anzacs, the result was the restoration of an original Gallipoli lifeboat.
Honouring our Diggers
LEADER this week commemorates the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign by telling the stories of Victorian men and women swept up in the earth-shattering events of World War 1.
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.
A hero never forgotten
IN HIS own words, Epping’s Robert James Smith recounted the bloody Battle of Passchendaele to his family half a world away.
Sombre salute to the first and the last
IF it’s possible to describe as lucky a young bloke thrown into the horrors of Gallipoli, then Ted Matthews was very fortunate indeed.
Anzac brides travel to Gallipoli
THE pilots and cabin crew of the specially named QF100 — after the centenary of Anzac Day — all have family links to the first Diggers.
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.
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