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WWI

RAAF musician Corporal Robert Scott plays the bagpipes during the Anzac Day dawn service in Villers-Bretonneux, France. Story by Flight Sergeant Vicki Shelley. Photo by Corporal Robert Whitmore.
ADF People History Lest We Forget 

Pack your bagpipes, tour the world

21/03/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 872 Views 0 Comments Air Force Band, Villers-Bretonneux, WWI

In 2015 Corporal Rob Scott was studying at the Conservatoire de Versailles, only a few hundred metres as the crow

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The new ADF bible, supplied by the Bible Society Australia, at the launch ceremony at Russell Offices in Canberra. Story and photos by Corporal Michael Rogers.
Australian Army News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy 

A new source of light for the ADF

19/03/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 1216 Views 0 Comments Chaplains, WWI

Two large shells exploded near Lance Corporal Phillip Davies while he was digging in telephone cables at Messines Ridge during

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Trooper Nigel Cox has a proud association with former Mt Alford State School leadership team Guy, Tilly and Klancie. Story by Captain Cody Tsaousis. Photo by Mt Alford State School
ADF People Australian Army History Lest We Forget 

WWI memorial links ‘Trooper Nigel’ with school

18/02/202503/03/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 952 Views 0 Comments WWI

Trooper Nigel Cox has developed a strong and continuous bond with Mt Alford State School over the past six years,

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Private William Higgs’ newly installed headstone at Commonwealth War Graves Commission's (CWGC) Crucifix Corner Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, France. Story. by Aaron Pegram. Photo courtesy of CWGC.
ADF People History Lest We Forget 

Search goes on for the lost but not forgotten

12/11/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1018 Views 0 Comments Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Unrecovered War Casualties – Army (UWC-A), Villers-Bretonneux, WWI

On Remembrance Day, as Australians reflect on the sacrifice of those who have served, the Manager of Unrecovered War Casualties

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Photos of Lieutenant McWilliam, foreground right, and Captain McWilliam, foreground left; his diary, back left, and his midshipman’s journal, back right. Story and photo by Lieutenant Commander John Thompson.
ADF People History Lest We Forget Royal Australian Navy 

Extraordinary tale behind extraordinary documents

18/09/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 992 Views 0 Comments AWM, WWI

The story of coincidence, persistence and happenstance – a set of historic documents uncovered at the Australian High Commission in

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Second Lieutenant Cecil Healy is the only Australian Olympian to have died in combat.
ADF People History Lest We Forget 

Remembering Aussie Olympic Gold medalist killed in action

24/07/202430/07/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1255 Views 0 Comments France, WWI

Olympians Kaarle McCulloch and Michelle Ford have honoured the memory of  Cecil Healy, the only Australian Olympic gold medallist to die

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Leading Seaman Peta Binns' great-great uncle, 2nd Lieutenant George Oakley Newton, is circled in a photo of his cadet class. Story by Leading Seaman Peta Binns. Photo supplied by Australian War Memorial (P00864.001).
ADF People History Lest We Forget 

Feeling the weight of a military legacy – Anzac Day

03/05/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 918 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day, Gallipoli, WWI

A pilgrimage to Anzac Cove prompted Leading Seaman Peta Binns to reflect on the sacrifice and valour etched into her

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Singer-guitarist Bill Waterhouse performs at the Majors Creek Anzac Day service. Story and photos by Corporal Luke Bellman.
ADF People History Lest We Forget 

Honouring shared history among the magpies – Anzac Day

02/05/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 759 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day, Vietnam War, WWI

The warble of magpies and chuckling of kookaburras filled the country air at Majors Creek as residents marched behind Australian

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Leading Aircraftwoman Hunter Westbrook, of Australia’s Federation Guard, visits the resting place of her distant cousin, Private Victor Westbrook, at the Bailleul Communal Cemetery in Northern France. Story by Flight Lieutenant Lily Lancaster. Photos by Sergeant Oliver Carter.
ADF People History Lest We Forget 

Cousins ‘unite’ in France a century later – Anzac Day

23/04/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 999 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day, Australia’s Federation Guard, AWM, Villers-Bretonneux, WWI

As told by Leading Aircraftwoman Hunter Westbrook, of Australia’s Federation Guard, to Flight Lieutenant Lily Lancaster. CAPTION: Leading Aircraftwoman Hunter Westbrook,

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Australia's Federation Guard members, Corporal Michael Byrne, left, Able Seaman Christopher Innis and Corporal Julie Kling with photos of their relatives at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Story by Captain Karam Louli. Photos by Leading Seaman Susan Mossop.
ADF People History Lest We Forget 

Honouring past relatives on French soil – Anzac Day

23/04/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 979 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day, Australia’s Federation Guard, Villers-Bretonneux, WWI

Almost 106 years after guns fell silent in the battle of Villers-Bretonneux, one of the descendants of a soldier killed

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Navy sailor Able Seaman Rachel Brandt at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Story and photos by Corporal Luke Bellman.
ADF People History Lest We Forget 

Family history motivates Defence service – Anzac Day

23/04/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 599 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day, AWM, WWI

A booby trap detonated and collapsed the Bapaume town hall in France on March 25, 1917, killing Lance Corporal Jules

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The bronze statue honouring Sister Greta Towner's service in Blackall’s Memorial Park, Queensland. Story by Captain Cath Batch. Photos by Major Edward Dahlheimer.
ADF People Health and Wellbeing History Lest We Forget 

Nursing service wrought in bronze

17/11/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 1147 Views 0 Comments Service Nurses, WWI

Once just a name on the Blackall State School honour roll in Queensland, Sister Greta Towner (1891-1961), who served as

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Wreaths adorn the foot of the Loxton Avro Anson Crash Memorial in Loxton, South Australia. Photos by Sergeant Nicci Freeman.
ADF People History Lest We Forget Veterans 

Lost airmen remembered 80 years on

10/10/202310/10/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 1171 Views 0 Comments RAAF Edinburgh, WWI, WWII

RAAF Edinburgh aviators joined the Air Force Association (South Australia) in commemorating the 80th anniversary of a crash that resulted

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The Australian Imperial Force Mouquet Farm Memorial near the village of Pozières, France. Story and photos by Corporal Jacob Joseph.
ADF People Europe History Lest We Forget 

Mates first, then and now

30/08/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 1368 Views 0 Comments 31st/42nd Battalion Royal Queensland Regiment, France, Pozières, WWI

Private Wayne Drage’s voice wavered as he spoke about the day his great-great uncle was wounded during the battle of

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The Brothers in Arms memorial to Privates James and John Hunter near Ypres, Belgium. Story and photos by Corporal Jacob Joseph.
ADF People Europe History Lest We Forget 

Soldiers retrace diggers’ footsteps

30/08/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 1667 Views 0 Comments 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, Battle of Polygon Wood, Belgium, WWI, Ypres

On the night he died in 1977, Jim Hunter called for his older brother Jack. CAPTION: The Brothers in Arms memorial

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Jonathan Church Good Soldiering Award ambassador Corporal Justin Wells picks a poppy beside the Le Hamel Australian Corps Memorial, France. Story and photos by Corporal Jacob Joseph.
ADF People Europe Lest We Forget 

On the spot of an heroic stand

29/08/202329/08/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 1627 Views 0 Comments France, Victoria Cross, Villers-Bretonneux, WWI

Walking in the footsteps of a Victoria Cross (VC) recipient from World War I gave a Jonathan Church Good Soldiering

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Australian Army Jonathan Church Good Soldiering Award ambassador Corporal Justin Wells, beside the headstone of Gunner William Tasker at Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux France. Story and photos by Corporal Jacob Joseph.
ADF People History Lest We Forget 

Wallabies seek inspiration from our fallen

25/08/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 969 Views 0 Comments ADF Sport, France, Last Post, Villers-Bretonneux, WWI

It was one of the most stunning battlefield victories and the beginning of the end of WW1. CAPTION: Australian Army

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An Australian soldier inspects the barrel of the Amiens Gun located at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Story and photo by Private Nicholas Marquis.
Australian Army History News 

Big gun with an even bigger story

03/02/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 2174 Views 1 Comment AWM, WWI

Firing 300kg shells more than 25km, this astonishing piece of hardware is described as the finest trophy captured by any

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Australian Army soldier Corporal Jake Bostock talks with Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Simon Stuart, AO, DSC. Story by Captain Cody Tsaousis. Photo by Sergeant Tristan Kennedy.
ADF People History 

Corporal continues family’s Gallipoli legacy

16/12/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2137 Views 0 Comments Gallipoli Barracks, WWI, WWII

The Australian Defence Force has a rich history of family legacies being carried on through the generations. CAPTION: Australian Army

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Australian Army personnel ready to take up the Australian flag from the coffin of Australian WWI soldiers being re-interred in Belgium. The soldiers were finally laid to rest after being thought missing for 90 years. Story by Corporal Jacob Joseph. Photo by Corporal Chris Moore.
Australian Lest We Forget News Veterans 

Three previously unknown WWI soldiers identified

18/11/202229/11/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 1175 Views 0 Comments 8th Brigade, Remembrance Day, WWI

The names of three unknown Australian soldiers, who died during some of the bloodiest fighting of World War 1, were

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