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David Laird stands ready beneath the Lonesome Pine with “Clarrie’s Flag”, the banner of the 7th Battalion, for the early Anzac ceremony at Wattle Park.

The park where Anzac Day comes early, beneath Australia’s oldest Lone Pine

Each year hundreds flock to the Anzac service that is held in Wattle Park a week before Anzac Day. This year, it will be two weeks early.

  • Tony Wright

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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
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
Alice Ross-King and Harry Moffitt.

‘My beautiful boy’: The diary of a heart broken at Fromelles

Frontline nurse Alice Ross-King’s World War I diaries tell of a great love - and a dreadful tragedy.

  • Tony Wright
Australian Prime Minister John Curtin and his British counterpart Winston Churchill at the Conference of Dominion Premiers in London in 1944.

John Curtin, Winston Churchill and the cable that changed the course of Australian history

During World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered Australian troops to defend Britain’s colonial interests. Australian leader John Curtin had other ideas.

  • Peter FitzSimons
The prime minister’s two-day Kokoda trek will culminate at the Isurava memorial.

How four pillars on the Kokoda Track will change Albanese forever

When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese lurches out of the PNG jungle at Isurava shrine, four words will be etched on his psyche.

  • Peter FitzSimons
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Wounded Australian ANZACs being treated in Valletta.

Lest we forget ancient island that opened its hearts to our Anzacs

A small, solemn group of dignitaries will meet in Malta – as they have since 1916 – among the rows of headstones at Pieta Military Cemetery to commemorate an intriguing but forgotten chapter of Gallipoli lore.

  • Andrew Hornery
Carl Johnson and Lambis Englezos at the grave of J. Collier, whose war memorial headstone was removed a replaced with a tin plaque.

When the graves of our war dead were desecrated – to save the government money

Australia has always honoured its war dead. But what of the thousands of unmarked graves in Australia of soldiers who brought home their war wounds?

  • Tony Wright
Andrew Tomkins with his work, ‘Ray’s Room’, which has just won the Gallipoli Art Prize.

Tradie turned artist wins prize for work exploring veteran’s trauma

A third-generation builder turned artist has scooped the 2023 Gallipoli Art Prize with a poignant picture of his war veteran uncle’s bedroom.

  • Helen Pitt
Australian troops at Gallipoli.

It’s time to move on from Gallipoli

We have so much to be proud of in our military history, why dwell on Gallipoli?

  • Peter FitzSimons

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