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- Ceremony to Honour Lord Bernard Freyberg -
9/24/2007 9:54:28 AM
New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel will attend a special ceremony in Surrey, England on 30 September to honour one of New Zealand’s most famous soldiers and military commanders. The ceremony at Lord Bernard Freyberg’s gravesite will be attended by the Prime Minister Helen Clark, Chief of Army Major General Lou Gardiner, and NZDF personnel from the UK and New Zealand. ...(more inside)
- Maori Television Seeks ANZAC Stories For 2008 -
9/19/2007 9:49:10 AM
Maori Television is appealing for ANZAC story ideas as production begins on next year`s marathon broadcast to mark New Zealand`s national day of commemoration on Friday April 25. ...(more inside)
- Facepaint patriots: the phenomenon of nationalism -
9/18/2007 9:47:25 AM
What is remarkable about the First World War is that it was not the last, so hideous was its cost, so lingering were its traumas: by rights, it should have discredited nationalism ever more. For confirmation that it had perversely opposite impacts, go no further than the rituals of ancestor worship at ANZAC Cove each April 25. ...(more inside)
- Wired and wandering: the modern backpacker -
9/16/2007 9:43:05 AM
Several years ago backpacking meant venturing into the unknown. If more money was needed, it had to be wired from home... ...GALLIPOLI on ANZAC Day is a rite of passage for Aussie backpackers, but if you`re in Turkey it`s worth detouring to Cappadocia. The crazy volcanic rock formations and underground cities make you feel you have entered a different world. Some of the monasteries and stone chapels have stood since 400BC. ...(more inside)
- Students remember them -
9/14/2007 9:38:14 AM
A group of young Rotorua children who have remembered New Zealand`s fallen soldiers are to be remembered themselves. The poems of eight Westbrook School pupils caught the eye of Rotorua RSA members recently and they were keen to see them preserved. The children yesterday handed their work over to the RSA, for display at its central city clubrooms. They wrote the poems for ANZAC Day, in memory of the more than 18,000 Kiwi soldiers who were killed in World War I. ...(more inside)
- Trio apologise for climbing memorial -
9/14/2007 9:30:30 AM
Three youth workers have faced court for climbing to the top of the HMAS Brisbane war memorial to get a better view of the Alexandra Headland bluff. They were charged with committing an “unregulated high risk activity” which is a law also designed to stop people parachuting, hang-gliding or base jumping from buildings or structures. ...(more inside)
- Samoa changes holiday list -
9/13/2007 9:27:21 AM
The Samoa government has announced some changes to its list of public holidays each year after calls from several business operators and politicians. The ANZAC and Arbor Day holidays will only be commemorated but will no longer be observed as public holidays. ...(more inside)
- At last, service for ANZACs on Western Front -
9/07/2007 9:21:41 AM
Extensive Australian losses on the Western Front in World War I will be recognised at the nation`s first ANZAC Day dawn service in France next April, to be conducted as part of the annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli. ...(more inside)
- Silence on the Somme -
9/07/2007 9:19:01 AM
Most of us know much more about Gallipoli than we do about the Western Front and the Somme battlefields, and we tend to look on the ill-fated ANZAC campaign as our country`s finest hour. ...(more inside)
- Memorial attacked again but gets little protection -
9/06/2007 9:15:25 AM
Every day the news is different, but lots of it has been around before. Take damage at the Albury War Memorial, for instance. A spate of vandalism occurred there six years ago.
There were calls for security cameras and the usual expressions of disgust and anger. ...(more inside)
- Wrecking trees betrays diggers -
9/04/2007 8:57:53 AM
The nine giant fig trees have formed a guard of honour over Mackay-Eungella Road for almost 60 years, honouring the Pleystowe diggers who died during WWII... ...Each ANZAC Day since 1948 the RSL sub-branch and families place wreaths at each tree. ...(more inside)
- Lost for 90 years, diggers identified by DNA -
9/04/2007 8:53:50 AM
They were lost for 90 years, killed in the slush of the Passchendaele battles of 1917, and forgotten. Now DNA technology has identified the remains of two Australian World War One diggers unearthed last year in the Belgian hamlet of Westhoek, east of Ypres. Sergeant George Calder, of northern Victoria, and Private John Hunter, of Queensland, will be overlooked no more. ...(more inside)
- ANZAC descendant credits new direction of self and country to Turkey -
8/27/2007 8:46:02 AM
Gregor Watson, a Muslim from Australia who rediscovered himself in Turkey cites Gallipoli, along with the birth of modern Turkey, as the starting point of Australia’s new identity
Coming to Turkey from Australia’s island of Tasmania, Muslim teacher Gregor Watson believes Australia, which gained independence from Britain in 1901, actually found its true freedom at the Battle of Gallipoli (Çanakkale). Watson elaborated, “Gallipoli, along with the birth of modern Turkey, was the starting point of Australia’s new identity.” ...(more inside)
- Students` prize tour of duty -
8/26/2007 8:40:45 AM
Emily Cock knew "nothing" about World War I when she applied for this year`s inaugural Premier`s ANZAC School Prize. ...(more inside)
- France trip to honour dead war hero -
8/21/2007 10:51:22 PM
A Timaru teenager will travel to France next month to honour a Kiwi war hero. Rosaria Campbell, a 16-year-old Craighead student, has been selected as the New Zealand representative to take part in a memorial service for Christchurch-born pilot Noel Stokes in the French village of Yevres... ...As part of the competition a student from France will come to Timaru next year to celebrate an Anzac Day service in New Zealand. ...(more inside)
- One-in all-in is way to go -
8/20/2007 4:42:08 AM
AUSTRALIA skipper Stirling Mortlock has revealed the Wallabies will consider the extraordinary step of introducing a self-imposed blanket curfew for all players during the World Cup... ...ARU vice-chairman and former Defence Force chief Peter Cosgrove told the players about the amazing courage of the Australian soldiers who liberated the French village of Villers-Bretonneux on Anzac Day in 1918 and changed the course of World War I. The Wallabies will make a pilgrimage to the village, where the local military cemetery has the graves of 779 Australian soldiers. ...(more inside)
- Bendigo says thanks -- hundreds salute Vietnam veterans -
8/20/2007 2:36:45 AM
THEY bear scars that cannot be seen, but on Saturday, the Bendigo community acknowledged, apologised to and - most importantly - thanked Vietnam veterans for their service during the Vietnam War. Hundreds attended the Vietnam Veterans` Day memorial service in Pall Mall on Saturday. ...(more inside)
- Vietnam vets remember the terrible sacrifices -
8/20/2007 2:33:13 AM
Marching alongside 300 Vietnam War veterans today, Skip Ekslom said he would make sure no Australian soldier returning from active duty would ever again be treated the way he was. "We were spat on, we had red paint thrown on us, we were called baby-killers, the RSL told us we weren`t in a real war," he recalled, sitting on the edge of a fountain in Anzac Square. ...(more inside)
- Diggers` bloody role in Irish uprising -
8/20/2007 2:27:40 AM
THE year was 1916. Australian soldiers involved in the brutal fighting on the Western Front had been granted leave and went to Ireland for a break. But instead of catching up with relatives and resting up, the Australian troops found themselves reluctantly pressed into more action by the British — to help crush the Easter Rebellion in Dublin. ...(more inside)
- Govt to give $200,000 for war memorials -
8/20/2007 2:21:55 AM
The federal government is to contribute $200,000 for two new Canberra memorials, commemorating the men and women who served in the two world wars.
Veterans Affairs Minister Bruce Billson said more than 100,000 Australians gave their lives in those conflicts. ...(more inside)
- Fantastic Pasts: Imaginary Adventures in New Zealand History -
8/20/2007 2:18:54 AM
History is full of "what ifs". What if the initial landing at Anzac Cove had been successful, Chunuk Bair had been held, the Dardanelles forced open, and Churchill vindicated? Would the Russian revolution have been delayed or never happened? Would the collapse of the German army been hastened? Or would the Turks have won the war, having lost that battle? Hindsight means we know what happened, but not the might-have-beens, provocative as they are. ...(more inside)
- Turkey commemorates Ataturk’s August 10 victory at Gallipoli -
8/20/2007 12:34:57 AM
ECEABAT/CANAKKALE - Ninety-two years ago, Turkish troops led by the then colonel Mustafa Kemal pushed an Allied force off the peak of Chunuk Bair, sealing the Ottoman victory in the Gallipoli Campaign. ...(more inside)
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