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Charles Gage was one of the first Indigenous soldiers to die on the Western Front in World War I Artist ... This story contains an image of an Indigenous Australian who is deceased.
The idea of using art to interpret and commemorate the war was first raised by Will Dyson, an Australian expatriate cartoonist working in Britain, who went to the Western Front as Australia’s ...
Dr Peter Stanley argues that a new sense of Australian identity was born when Australian soldiers returned home after the horrors of World War One ... On the Western Front, where the five AIF ...
Although Gallipoli was our "baptism of fire" as a nation, it was a sideshow compared with our involvement on the Western Front ... half of all Australian men aged 18 to 42 were in uniform.
An Australian guard of honour fired rifles in ... A labourer, he enlisted in October 1916 aged 27, and arrived on the Western Front in mid-August 1917, only to be killed in an attack on Sept.
God knows that it was hell'': A German trench at Pozieres captured by the Australians in August 1916.Credit: Australian War Memorial ... were about 1000 yards in front. My frontage was about ...
The twin to the Gallipoli Symphony (which premiered in Turkey and Queensland in 2015), the requiem tells the story of the major Australian battles on the Western Front. Co-commissioned by the ...