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Sergeant Samuel Pearse, who died fighting in Russia with the British while wearing his Australian uniform.

Why an Anzac VC winner’s remains are in a plastic bag in a remote Russian morgue

More than 105 years after his death aged 22, a campaign is growing for Victoria Cross recipient Samuel Pearse to be given a dignified burial with military honours.

  • Rob Harris

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Dr John Miller, 94, was just 4 years old when his father and godfather planted the seedling of an elm that now stands grandly at the Shrine of Remembrance.

After watching his veteran father plant it 90 years ago, John returns to a great elm at the Shrine

Dr John Miller will be a guest of honour at the Shrine of Remembrance on Monday. He attended the inauguration of the Shrine on November 11, 1934.

  • Tony Wright
Albert Jacka.

‘Machine guns and men in trenches’: On the eve of battle, Albert Jacka made an awful discovery

In early 1917, as the Allies prepared to take Bullecourt on the Western Front, Jacka was sent into No-Man’s Land.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Albert Jacka in camp at Gallipoli, around August 1915.

‘Well, I managed to get the buggers, sir’: The daring plan that created a legend

Albert Jacka was Australia’s first Victoria Cross recipient for his actions in Gallipoli when Turkish troops launched an attack on troops dug in at Courtney’s Post.

  • Peter FitzSimons
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Triumph and tragedy: A front-page view of history

As The Age celebrates 170 years, we look back on some of the most notable major events featuring on our front pages over the decades.

  • Hannah Kennelly
Good neighbours in the country are invaluable.

The blessed gift of good-hearted neighbours

Good neighbours are a treasure, as a group of countrymen proved to my grandfather in his time of need after World War I.

  • Tony Wright
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Not all plain sailing in God’s country

Maybe it’s time to quit jibing in clubland.

Australian infantrymen clamber over the top of a trench in France on a bayonet charge towards the German lines [Book - War]

Finding faith amid news from war’s battlefields

The poets of the war were once the eyes and ears of the rest of the world.

  • Warwick McFadyen
Laura J. Carroll drawing a page from Making The Shrine.

Pigeon sleepovers, margarine models and human remains: The true history of the Shrine

A new graphic narrative tells little-known yarns about the Shrine of Remembrance.

  • Carolyn Webb
Billie Bell’s grave in Kent.

Why a silent prayer at the grave of someone I never met was so exquisitely meaningful

Our commemorations for the dead take us inevitably into the extraordinary and unknowable.

  • Jane E Sullivan

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