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Photo  -  Lone Pine Throughout 2020 we heard on news casts the accusations and military determinations against specific current and former SAS members. These are those ion the front line in the hardest of situations for any military person.  So why write on War Graves, Australians would have to be deaf not have heard the drama associated with the war crimes allegations of Special Forces and the back lash of their families. Why would anyone bother joining our military? We surely recall Russe...

Photo  -    Lone Pine A few years ago, like many Australians I went to the cinema to view Russell Crowes The Water Diviner. The story line is about a father, an Australian farmer, who lost his three sons on Gallipoli in that disastrous military campaign in 1915. What fascinated me, amongst many things in the movie, was the work of the Commonwealth War Graces Commission in 1919-20 on Gallipoli as the team painstakingly identified from old military maps exactly where the various battles took...