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
Laura Elizabeth Forster was a trailblazing woman who pushed the boundaries of societal norms to become a respected doctor, surgeon, and researcher.
From our website
Now 100, Owen Cook looks back at his time as a Lancaster pilot during the war as one of the most significant times in his life.
From Australian War Memorial
Matt Anderson has been the Director of the Australian War Memorial for almost a year, but before that, had a fascinating career with DFAT and the Royal Australian Engineers.
From 2CC
Established by the first qualified Australian female electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie OBE, the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC) trained women to be wireless telegraphists and signallers with the aim of releasing men from this work for war service.
From The first WRANS
The first women in the Air Force may not have flown, but they made a great contribution to the war at home.
From our website
The Australian War Memorial will be able to welcome more than 4000 people to the Anzac Day dawn service this year.
From Canberra Times
Images will be projected onto the front façade of the Australian War Memorial to appease onlookers that miss out on limited places for the Anzac Day dawn service and national ceremony.
From City News
He faced Japanese soldiers wielding samurai swords on the infamous Kokoda Track and later introduced canned baby food into Australia. Alan Moore, one of Australia’s last remaining veterans of the Kokoda Track campaign, has died aged 100.
From the Sydney Morning Herald
One band of brothers has walked the length of the Kokoda Track to help shine a light on mental health issues impacting Australia's veterans community and raise money in the process.
From the Examiner
In 1966, a young American journalist named Frances FitzGerald began publishing articles from South Vietnam in leading magazines, including this one. She was the unlikeliest of war correspondents.
From the Atlantic
A bundle of letters handed over to the Australian War Memorial by Auntie Glenda, Lieutenant Reginald Saunders’ daughter, give for the first time an insight into the private life of Australia’s most senior Indigenous soldier.
From the Sydney Morning Herald
On 31 March, the Royal Australian Air Force will commemorate 100 years of service.
From Australian Aviation
Peppered across the Australia landscape are memorials honouring the human cost of war. Now, one Victorian town has erected a memorial to honour the thousands of horses that went to war and never returned.
From ABC News
Thirty years ago, in 1991, hostilities between Iraqi and Coalition forces ended, bringing the Gulf War to a close.
Phoebe Parker has spent her life surrounded by a loving family. Roy McDonald was left at an orphanage. The siblings’ fates were determined by an act that took almost 100 years to uncover.
From ABC News
15th February marks the anniversary of the Fall of Singapore, one of the worst military disasters to befall Australia, and one of the greatest defeats in British history.
From our website