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Plaque worth $10,000 stolen from Melbourne war memorial
A 95-year-old plaque has been stolen from a war memorial in Melbourne. Police were told the plaque was last seen on the cenotaph at St James Park on Burwood Road, Hawthorn, at about 10am yesterday.
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The battle over the Australian War Memorial
The memorial's Roll of Honour has the names of more than 103,000 Australians.(Four Corners: Nick Wiggins) Hundreds of thousands visit the Australian War Memorial every year.(Four Corners ...
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Colonial Monument Toppled Ahead Of Australia's National Holiday
Police said they were also probing vandalism overnight of a Melbourne war memorial, which media images showed covered in red paint and daubed with the words: "Land Back". Authorities said Friday ...
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Two iconic Melbourne monuments vandalised on eve of Australia Day
An Anzac memorial in Melbourne has been vandalised ahead of ... to honour soldiers from the area who fought in the First World War. Crews spent Saturday morning cleaning up both sites.
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A Giant Oculus and Floating Glass Sculptures: What’s New at the Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial in Canberra is already one of the most recognisable buildings in the country, with its Byzantine-style green copper dome and solemn sandstone archways. But over the past ...
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‘Hymn karaoke’: Veterans organisation and War Memorial told to modernise Dawn Services or face ‘irrelevance’
The RSL and the Australian War Memorial (AWM) have been warned they ... Gladman said the AWM should look to the example of the Melbourne Dawn Service at the Shrine of Remembrance, hosted by ...
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Chester Wilmot
He completed a law degree at Melbourne University in 1936 and developed ... for the Australian War Memorial. In May 1944 Wilmot was invited to work in Europe for the BBC. On D-Day he flew into ...