On April 25, 1915, 78,000 British, French, Australian, and New Zealand soldiers stormed ashore the Gallipoli peninsula amid a fury of Ottoman machine guns and shellfire. They struggled up ...
Commissioner Richard Chambers, the Minister of Police, Hon Mark Mitchell, Associate Minister of Police Casey Costello and ...
Until recently the story of the Irish at Gallipoli remained largely untold, with at least 3,000 Irishmen dying there, fighting shoulder to shoulder with their Australian and New Zealand comrades.
What do we commemorate on Anzac Day? A. The landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli, Turkey during World War I B. The arrival of the first free settlers from Great Britain C.
World War Two has been extensively covered in documentaries, dramas and even comedies - but what about its earlier ...
The Aboriginal population was small and persecuted, and the Commonwealth government’s exclusivist White Australia policy helped to maintain the continent’s striking cultural homogeneity. However, in ...
Even without Joe Schmidt’s first-choice Wallabies skipper last year Liam Wright, Kiss has rolled out a forward pack with ...
Large-scale Anzac Day events have returned to Australia and New Zealand after two years of ... marches commemorate the failed assault on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on April 25, 1915.
The January tedium of the tennis and its swarm of absurdly wealthy, self-obsessed, automaton participants is always dispelled by the gaiety (if that word still means what it used to) of Australia Day, ...
Thanks to two British researchers, my family recently uncovered the incredible history of William Bleakley and how he played ...
Four months later Birdwood's troops landed at Gallipoli. He impressed the men by regularly visiting ... He toured Australia and New Zealand in 1920 to wide public acclaim and was given command of the ...
At Gallipoli, the 7th Brigade, which included the 27th Battalion, reinforced the weary New Zealand and Australian Division. The 27th had a relatively quiet time at Gallipoli and the battalion departed ...