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Assistant Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Matt Thistlethwaite lights a legacy torch during the launch of the Legacy Centenary Torch Relay at Pozieres British Cemetery, France. Photo by Sergeant Oliver Carter.

Legacy torch sets off on six-month journey

02/05/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1570 Views 0 Comments Legacy

Legacy Centenary Torch Relay has begun in Pozières, France marking the start of a journey to celebrate 100 years since

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Point & Shoot: Australian Veteran Photography Exhibition

02/05/202302/05/2023 Mark Direen 1636 Views 0 Comments

In a bid to unearth the untold stories of Australian veterans, veteran owned business Point Assist is proud to announce

3rd Brigade Commander Brigadier David McCammon inspects soldiers from 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, on their Kapyong Parade at Lavarack Barracks, Townsville. Photo by Corporal Daniel Sallai.

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Old Faithful remembers Kapyong

30/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1847 Views 0 Comments 3RAR, Kapyong

Old Faithful’s story was remembered this week, as soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), commemorated Kapyong Day

Musician Scott Collinson, from the Australian Army Band, stands beside the name of his relative, Private Alexander Walker, before the Anzac Day Dawn Service at the Australian National Memorial in Villers-Bretonneux, France. Photo by Sergeant Oliver Carter.

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Musician remembers lost relative in France

29/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1172 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day 2023

Musician Scott Collinson was moved to be playing in the Australian Army Band at a Dawn Service in France this

The 2023 Anzac Day Dawn Service at Wellington Arch, London – from left, Admiral Sir Ben Key, First Sea Lord; Phil Goff, New Zealand High Commissioner; The Prince of Wales; Stephen Smith, Australian High Commissioner; Brigadier Grant Mason, Head of Australian Defence Staff London. Peter Livingstone Photography, Peter Livingstone.

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London service led by royalty

29/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1231 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day 2023

Led by the Prince of Wales, about 1000 people attended the Anzac Day dawn service at the Australian War Memorial

Lieutenant Commander Frederick Septimus Kelly, an Australian composer and British Olympic Gold Medalist.

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“Australia’s greatest cultural loss to war” remembered at Villers-Bretonneux

29/04/202329/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1374 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day 2023

This year’s Anzac Day dawn service in France had on its agenda the music of Australian composer Lieutenant Commander Frederick

Leading Aircraftwoman Hunter Westbrook, from Australia’s Federation Guard, visits the resting place of her distant cousin, Private Victor Westbrook, in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery, Northern France. Photo by Sergeant Oliver Carter.

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Visit to a cousin who never came home

28/04/202329/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1968 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day 2023

As she took part in Anzac Day commemorations in France this year, Leading Aircraftwoman Hunter Westbrook remembered a relative who

Royal Australian Navy officer Sub Lieutenant Mary Booth holds a portrait of her great uncle Able Seaman Ernest Albert Booth, at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Photo by Corporal Luke Bellman.

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Sailor’s story inspires through the years

28/04/202329/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1332 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day 2023, HMAS Sydney II

More than 70 years after Able Seaman Ernest Albert Booth was killed in the sinking of HMAS Sydney II, his

Wing Commander Adam Robinson reminisces with 100-year-old Dorothy Craig about her spouse, WWII RAAF veteran Lloyd Craig, who died in 1962. Photo by Corporal Brenton Kwaterski.

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WWII RAAF veteran’s exploits remembered 80 years on

28/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1219 Views 0 Comments

Just before WWII, a lifelong love was blossoming between two Australian teens who met while carrying rubbish bins across their

World War 2 veteran Jack Bartlett marks Anzac Day at his home in 2020.

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Honour lines the streets

26/04/202326/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1394 Views 0 Comments

A World War 2 veteran has lived a story worth telling and continues to make his mark. For the last

National Serviceman Jack Hamilton, centre, with fellow 'nashos' in Sydney, 1951.

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Nasho vet looks back fondly

26/04/202326/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1379 Views 0 Comments

They have been called the ‘quiet generation’ – born just before or during WWII, when their country was at war

Sergeant Beau Wright, 7th Brigade Commander's XI Cricket Captain, prepares for the annual Anzac Day Shell Green match against the Brisbane Lord Mayors XI. Photo by Major Roger Brennan.

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Cricket match honours famous event at Gallipoli

25/04/202329/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1746 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day 2023

Captain of the ADF cricket team, Sergeant Beau Wright, will lead the 7th Brigade Commander’s XI against the Brisbane Lord

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Wreck of Montevideo Maru found

22/04/202322/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3644 Views 3 Comments Montevideo Maru

The shipwreck that represents Australia’s largest loss of life at sea has been discovered more than 80 years after it

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Petition calls for protected identity status to be enduring

22/04/202322/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4601 Views 0 Comments Protected Identity Status

Veteran Support Force boss Heston Russell has called on veterans and the wider community to sign a petition calling for

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Invictus Games Athlete Profile – Brooke Mead

21/04/202321/04/2023 Brooke Mead 3605 Views 0 Comments Invictus Games, Invictus Games 2023

ADF service: I joined the Royal Australian Navy as a Communication Information Systems Sailor at age 18 in 2012. As a

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Riverina Veteran Wellbeing Centre celebrates one year operating

19/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1581 Views 0 Comments Veteran Wellbeing Centre

RSL LifeCare’s Riverina Veteran Wellbeing Centre has marked its first year of serving the local community, with the centre opening

Sir Peter Cosgrove with pre-schoolers from the Little Diggers Pre School, at the RSL LifeCare Anzac Village. Screen grab from supplied video.

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RSL LifeCare survey on importance of ANZAC Day

19/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2098 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day 2023

In the lead up to Anzac Day, new research suggests 43% of Australians agree that veterans are adequately supported with

Private AJ Shinner, 1RAR, stands guard over a food-distribution point near Baidoa. Photo by Corporal Gary Ramage – 21 Jan 1993.

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Meritorious Unit Citation for Somalia approved

18/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3607 Views 1 Comment Somalia

Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal has recommended that Australian Defence Force personnel who served in Somalia in the 1990s

Invictus Games 2023 Team Australia competitor Karney Armstrong. Photo by Flight Sergeant Ricky Fuller.

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Team Australia for Invictus Games 2023 announced

17/04/202317/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4773 Views 2 Comments Invictus Games, Invictus Games 2023

31 athletes will represent Australia at this year’s Invictus Games in Dusseldorf Germany this September. CAPTION: Invictus Games 2023 Team

The cranes at the Australian War Memorial will be wrangled onto much of the heavy lifting on the Memorial's $500million expansion over the next two years. AWM photo.

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Australian War Memorial cranes named by local kids

11/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1933 Views 0 Comments Australian War Memorial, AWM

The Australian War Memorial’s two tower cranes have been named by Canberra school children, with “Duffy” and “Teddy” rising over