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Anzac Centenary
Staging a return, but their dedication’s no act
THE exploits of the Light Horse brigade at Gallipoli and beyond forms part of the Anzac legend but keeping the name alive is proving difficult for a keen group of fans.
‘He was just 19, two years difference’
AS she looks around the rows of white headstones in France, Megan Cridland dabs away the tears as she finds the partner of her great, great grandmother
Trooper’s breathtaking trip to France
AS a soldier who has seen the frontline in Afghanistan, cavalry Trooper James Carter could not be prouder of taking part in a Dawn Service in France.
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Tensions on the homefront
SOLDIERS risked their lives overseas as families at home endured their own private hell, writes ANNE MATHER
Anzac descendants mobbed in Turkey
THE wives, sons and daughters and grandchildren of the first Anzacs were greeted like rock stars when they arrived in Turkey yesterday on the commemorative Qantas flight QF100.
MP: Scrap passports for crossing ditch
A NEW Zealand Minister has invoked the ‘Anzac spirit’ to call for passport-free travel for Australians and New Zealanders crossing the ditch.
One trip every Aussie should make
EVERY Aussie thinks they know this story. But there’s one truth that you can really only understand by being there.
Centenary of Anzacs: Shots of war
A TASMANIAN nurse compiled an amazing record of World War I, writes ANNE MATHER.
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.
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.
A heroic war effort all round
SEVEN members of the Curtain family fought for God, Country and Empire, one in the Boer War and the remaining six in World War I.
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