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The Anzac Day eve sunset service – staged for the first time in the forecourt of Sydney Opera House – was a collection of ...
Three centenarian World War II veterans, including Sydney-based John McAuley ... the last survivor of the HMAS Canberra, and army veteran Norma Booth as tributes to the trio were read.
On May 8, 1945, the last Nazi garrisons in Greece surrendered to Allied forces, marking the end of World War II in Europe.
Gwenda Moulton, aged just 19, sat with six other young women in their green uniforms in the small room she knew only as “Y Hut”, located at HMAS Harman outside Canberra. It was 1942 ...
What excitement when HMAS Australia – the most powerfulship in the southern hemisphere – steamed into Sydney Harbour on October ... mostly women – in World War II: today, however, a modern ...
As always, Anzac Day touches the hearts of Australians, wherever they are in the world, like no other national commemoration. And rarely, over the past 80 years, has it been held amid such elevated ...
And, for Sir Peter, Sydney Harbour serving as a backdrop for the sunset service holds special relevance given that Japanese midget submarines brought World War II to Australian waters in 1942.
In 1942 as a 19-year-old sailor, Yarrawonga’s Des Jones survived the sinking of the HMAS Canberra in the battle of Savo ...
Footage of an “unusual sightseer” who joined revellers in Sydney Harbour over the weekend has triggered a warning to Aussies as whales begin their migration along the coastline in the weeks ahead.
The World Angus Forum kicked off in a star-studded way on Tuesday night when around 350 guests were treated to a Sydney Harbour cruise. Editor - Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register ...
A major incident on the Sydney Harbour Bridge has brought traffic to a standstill on Easter Monday afternoon. Multiple emergency crews were seen on the southern approach to the bridge as traffic ...
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