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11th November. Remembrance Day |
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009 |
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My paternal grandfather served at Gallipoli and in France and with his four brothers who also served, miraculously returned: of my maternal grandfathers I know nothing (yet) , but chances are that they too served. My father-in-law’s father was killed at the Battle of Bullencourt in France… so for me Remembrance Day is a time to reflect on history – and family. The two poppies were photographed when I visited the Australian battlefields in France in 2005.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 February 2010 )
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British War Brides of Chinese Australian Diggers |
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Monday, 30 March 2009 |
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Alastair Kennedy from the Australian
Demographic and Social Research Institute at Canberra's ANU, has
unearthed a handful of unusual war brides from the First World War.
Alastair writes about the brides he has found...
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 April 2009 )
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They came for love of an Aussie |
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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
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It is impossible to estimate without official records, but it is probable that almost 50,000 women came to Australia in the twentieth century because they fell in love with an Aussie during a time of war. Carol Fallows, whose own mother arrived in Australia in 1946 on assisted passage as a fiancée of an Australian airman, reveals some of their stories
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 08 April 2009 )
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