New research into the little-known participation of Indigenous Australians in the Boer War has prompted the official dedication of a memorial grave in Sydney to one Aboriginal veteran forgotten by history.
From the Guardian
Army musician and sax player, Jaime Grech, joins classical saxophonist, Christina Leonard, in a musical triumph over one of our most contentious wars ever.
From Canberra city news
Australia’s withdrawal from the Vietnam War 50 years ago will be marked with two extraordinary concerts at Llewellyn Hall next month.
From Riot ACT
The Australian Embassy in Greece proudly presents the photographic exhibition ‘Mates and Allies – A tribute to the bonds forged between Australians and Greeks during the Battle of Crete’ at Athens International Airport.
From Greek city times
War memorials in the region will get a facelift in the latest round of funding being made available as part of the NSW Government’s Community War Memorials Fund.
From about regional News
43 years after the Battle of Coral-Balmoral, Vietnam veteran Tony Jensen received the “Medal for Gallantry” from Governor-General David Hurley.
From Canberra city news
On November 11th 1918, after four years of fighting and 20 million deaths, the guns of World War I finally fell silent.
From the ABC
Friday 14 May will mark a new annual tradition in Bathurst, with a Last Post Ceremony taking place to commence the three-day Festival Of Bells.
From Western Advocate
A sad tale for Taree RSL Sub-branch finally has a happy ending. A new soldier statue was recently installed at the Taree War Memorial, more than one year after the original was desecrated by vandals. The replacement, created by Edsteins, was funded through a Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) grant and Club Taree donation.
From Manning River Times NEWS
David Campbell Church was just 20 years old in 1944 when his fighter plan crashed in the Norwegian city of Bergen. Thanks to the kindness of two strangers halfway across the world, David's dog tags came home.
From the ABC
The remains of an unknown soldier from the First World War has been identified following an investigation by Fallen Diggers Incorporated, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Army’s Unrecovered War Casualties division this week.
From Defence Connect
War memorials are a place of pride across the length and breadth of Australia, ranging from the grand to the humble. They are a central feature of many country towns. But this Anzac Day, as services begin to take place again, another form of commemoration is in danger of being forgotten.
From About Regional News
Alison Aitken is considered royalty at the Australian War Memorial, but each Anzac Day she takes the time to sit alone with her memories.
From the ABC
What started as a unique way to raise funds for a charity in Vietnam has turned into something just as significant for veterans in the NSW Southern Highlands.
From the ABC
Until 1967, First Nations people were not counted in the national population, which meant Indigenous Australians who fought in the Boer War, World War I, including at Gallipoli, and World War II were fighting for a country that did not acknowledge or recognise them.
From The West Australian
Reading the long-lost poetry of an unknown Australian prisoner of war on the Burma-Thai “death railway”, the sense of fierce longing strikes the heart.
From SMH
Charles Burgess was born in Vienna, Austria on March 31, 1917, a year before the end of the First World War, and passed away in Bellingen, NSW, on April 4 this year, four days after turning 104.
From Nambucca Valley News
Emotions ran free at a special event in Ulladulla on Friday just gone. Voices cracked and tears flowed as plaques on Ulladulla's Frontline Services Memorial obelisk were officially unveiled.
From South Coast Register News
There are statues of mythological figures and animals in the Australian War Memorial's sculpture garden, but there isn't one depicting a woman who has actually lived. That is set to change with the construction of a $250,000 sculpture of Australian Army nurse Lieutenant-Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel.
From Canberra Times
The nephew of an Anzac soldier killed in World War I says he was staggered to learn of the existence of a war diary, which was handed to him at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance on Saturday.
From the Age
Private Harold West, a proud Murrawarri man who became known as “The Ghost of Kokoda”, was so good at his work that it was said he “could track a Geegar (little black ant) up a crowbar after six inches of rain”.
From the SMH
The journey of Indigenous men and women who have served in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has been captured by an Indigenous artist in a unique coin that will soon enter circulation.
From Riot ACT
Residents of Copacabana are celebrating the fact that their Naval Memorial is now registered as an official War Memorial.
From Community Coast News
As the Royal Australian Air Force marks its 100th anniversary we look at the illustrious history of the RAAF, through rare archival footage and in-depth interviews with air force veterans, servicing members and new recruits.
From the ABC