World War I
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.
- by Rob Harris
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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.
- by Tony Wright
‘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.
- by Peter FitzSimons
‘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.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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.
Tony Wright’s Column
Inheritance
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.
- by Tony Wright
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.
- by Warwick McFadyen
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.
- by Carolyn Webb
Opinion
Religion
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.
- by Jane E Sullivan
Wildfires across Turkey threaten Anzac graves on Gallipoli peninsula
At the site where an Allied landing was beaten back by Ottoman troops in 1915, the flames reached Canterbury Cemetery, where 22 soldiers from New Zealand are interred.
- by Rob Harris
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