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Australian troops entertaining themselves at the front-line - Australia's Culture Portal

And nowhere is this more apparent than in the actions of our front-line troops—soldiers or nurses—whether in the trenches, as prisoners of war or on leave. The significance of sport for Australian soldiers, from the First World War through to...

Australians and the Western Front - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian and American soldiers in a trench. Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. Left to right: Lt Norman Malcolm, 2 Pioneers; Sister Stella Malcom, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS); Lt Eric Malcolm, 3 Division Artillery; Staff Nurse Ed...

ANZAC Day - Australia's Culture Portal

On 25 April every year, Australians commemorate ANZAC Day. During the Second World War, ANZAC Day became a day on which the lives of all Australians lost in war time were remembered. Commemorative services are held at dawn on 25 April, the time of the o...

Australian civil aviation - Australia's Culture Portal

The Australian Flying Corps (AFC) was as influential on Australian civil aviation as it was on early Australian aviation. Two former AFC officers, Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness, established what later became known as Qantas, with Fysh also supporting th...

Early Australian aviation - Australia's Culture Portal

Until the Second World War, Australia was one of the world's leaders in aviation in terms of both air mileage and prominent aviation pioneers. Since the early development of powered flight in Australia in 1910, various air services have been established:...

Governors-General - Australia's Culture Portal

The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia represents the monarch of Australia - currently Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The functions and roles of the Governor-General include appointing ambassadors, ministers and judges, giving Royal Ass...

Remembrance Day

Originally called Armistice Day, this day commemorated the end of the hostilities for the Great War (World War I), the signing of the armistice, which occurred on 11 November 1918 - the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Armistice Day was obser...

Songs of war and peace: From the call to the trenches - Australia's Culture Portal

Patriotic music written in wartime has been used to express national pride, spread propaganda, encourage enlistment and motivate troops serving in Australia and on overseas duty. Until the First World War, patriotic music written for wars tended to dwell...

Songs of war and peace: From heroes to loss and protest - Australia's Culture Portal

Songs in wartime reflect attitudes about Australia's participation in conflict and war—from the Sudan War in 1885 to the First Gulf War (1990–1991). Some of the most well-known and colourful examples of wartime songs lauding heroes come from ...

Women in action - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of Australian War Memorial: VIC1426. The involvement of Australian women as nurses in war began in 1898 with the formation of the Australian Nursing Service of New South Wales, from which sixty nurses served in The Boer War. According to th...

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Scenes from the Western Front   (website Picture Australia )

'Scenes from the Western Front' is a confronting collection of photographs of Australian soldiers in well-known war zones in France and Belgium during the First World War. The trail demonstrates the atrocious conditions in which Australian soldiers fough...

Australians and the Western Front - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. Left to right: Lt Norman Malcolm, 2 Pioneers; Sister Stella Malcom, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS); Lt Eric Malcolm, 3 Division Artillery; Staff Nurse Edith Malcolm, AANS. French children tending gra...

National Film and Sound Archive - Australians in the First World War - The Western Front   (website National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) )

> Image: Images of World War One. Other films, such as Nurse Cavell (NFSA: 343384) and Joan of Arc of Loos (NFSA: 57222), recognise the important role that Australian women are playing in the war effort, particularly in the areas of nursing, interpreting...

Anniversary of the Battles of 1918 on the Western Front   (website Department of Veterans' Affairs )

ms-titleareaframe { background: none; height: 10px; overflow:hidden; } . Who manages the DVA rehabilitation process? The military campaigns fought by the First Australian Imperial Force in France and Belgium between April 1916 and November 1918 cost the l...

Random House Australia - Book Details - ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT   (website Random House Australia )

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT is the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall,ĶIn 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ,Äòglorious war,Ä...

Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation - Norman Baird - Book Extracts - The Western Front   (website Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation )

After his initial troop training in Brisbane, Norman sailed a two month journey from Sydney to England aboard the Euripides. Norman was assigned to the 15th Battalion upon leaving Sutton Veny Training Battalion, and sent to Calais, France on 1st April 19...

Book Talk: The Western Front Diaries by Jonathan King, State Library of Victoria   (website State Library of Victoria (SLV) )

It's one of great forgotten stories of Australia's war history - the WWI Western Front campaign fought by 250,000 Australian troops from 1916-18. Unknown to most Australians, it eclipsed Gallipoli many times over in the number of troops involved and the n...

Random House Australia - Book Details - THE WESTERN FRONT   (website Random House Australia )

For most British people, the First World War was the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea. This detailed but accessible account covers everything from how the front was created and the experiences of the Brit...

Travel guide to Yokohama, Japan | All quiet on the Western front   (website The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) )

Hamish McDonald discovers past glory, scandal and empty hopes in the port city of Yokohama. Yokohama, the port city attached to Tokyo, has just ended what was supposed to be a bumper year for visitors. Thriving on the silk trade, Yokohama became a livel...

All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)   (website Danny Yee's Book Reviews )

A searing first-person account of the First World War, All Quiet on the Western Front describes one German soldier's experiences and the fate of the school companions who joined up with him. Though only one political discussion among the soldiers is desc...