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The nine soldiers, who all died on the night of July 19, 1916 at the Battle of Fromelles, have been formally identified by the 2018 Fromelles Identification Board.
Dr Peter Stanley argues that a new sense of Australian identity was born when Australian soldiers returned home after the horrors of World War One. A postcard photograph, supposedly of 'the firing ...
Gettysburg College History Professor Ian Isherwood talked about how World War One soldiers interpreted their war experiences. He used works by three writers to illustrate the ways soldiers coped ...
Members of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company. Three of their sappers died on November 4 1918 and were among the last Australians to die in combat during World War 1.
THE values that underpin the war on terrorism today were forged in the mud of France 100 years ago and it was essential schoolchildren learnt this past to understand this era’s “war” on ...
But long before it was about aesthetic tweaks, it was about survival -- about restoring identity to those whose faces had been taken by war or fire or accidents.The trenches of the First World War ...
They wrote about patriotism, the sacrifice of soldiers, death of a loved one and women’s contribution to the war effort. Their poems turned up in newspapers and in slim volumes that are often ...