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Share on Facebook Like last year, many Australians paid tribute at home by standing at the end of their driveways at dawn, many with a candle and radio or app for a synchronised playing of the Last Post. The Australian War Memorial received approval from health authorities to hold the traditional dawn service and national ceremony, with 3,000 pre-registered ticket holders able to attend the dawn service and 4,200 the national ceremony in Canberra. The Anzac Day Dawn service is commencing at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. @SBSNews#AnzacDaypic.twitter.com/pYY3YtwDKc— T...

Memorials held on Turkey's Gallipoli to remember WWI deaths April 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Military personnel attend a ceremony to commemorate soldiers who died during the World War I campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, in Canakkale, Turkey, Saturday, April 24, 2021, on the 106th anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign. The Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 by Allied forces aimed to take control of the peninsula to weaken the Ottoman Empire. The campaign failed and Allied forces withdrew after eight months of fighting on the ground and some 250,000 casualties on both sides. The memorials were ke...

Advertisement The harsh realities of World War One for soldiers around the world have been brought into sharp focus in a series of vivid colourised photographs.   Images show British soldiers at a captured trench pointing at a sign that says 'old hun line', Indian cavalry after their charge at the Somme in 1916, and an Irish soldier in a trench in Mesopotamia. Other striking pictures show Canadian soldiers in the Battle of Amiens in 1918, the second wave of Russian troops waiting to go over the top in Ukraine in 1917 and the Lancashire Fusiliers on a boat at Gallipoli in 1915. The original ...

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the night the Luftwaffe bombed Derry German bombers targeted the city during the Blitz Messines Park, where thirteen people lost their lives in the 1941 raid. Reporter: '); Liam Tunney talks to historian Nigel Henderson about how a Shantallow housing development became the unintended target of German bombers in 1941. April 15, 1941. German bombers swarmed the skies. Belfast bore the brunt of a 200-strong Luftwaffe squadron, with 900 dead and 1,500 injured as a result. Seventy miles up the road, Derry was hit only once. It was not the Germans’ planned ta...

Australia to Commemorate 105th Anniversary of Gallipoli Evacuation On Sunday, Dec. 20, Australia will commemorate 105 years since the last of its troops evacuated the Gallipoli Peninsula, the site of one of the most well-known campaigns of the First World War. Newly reappointed Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Darren Chester said that on April 25, 1915, the ANZACs set out to seize the ridges running off the Sari Bair Range to cut off the Turks defending the Gallipoli Peninsula. The objectives were not taken and the campaign to take Turkey out of the war soon became a stalemate, and turned int...