War Graves have a sacred place
Photo - Lone Pine A few years ago, like many Australians I went to the cinema to view Russell Crowe's '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 place and then finding the bodies and dog tags. We discovered through the Turkish officials that...
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