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The Anzacs and their immortal campaign
A MULTIMEDIA SPECIAL.
A MULTIMEDIA SPECIAL.
There is a spot behind Quinn's Post cemetery high up on the second ridge of the Gallipoli Peninsula where you can stand and gaze down the length of Shrapnel Gully all the way to the sea.
The tragic truth is that 100 years ago, the prevailing view was that a nation was not a real nation until blood was shed, writes Peter FitzSimons.
Standing at the Nek on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Sydney student Anthony Segaert pictures young men his own age in battle there 100 years ago.
For just 10 para – the smallest coin in the Ottoman Empire – 23-year-old teacher Halil Iyidilli would write a letter home to the loved ones of his fellow Turkish soldiers.
This year, 2015, marks two anniversaries of famous conflicts: the invasion of the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli in World War I, on April 25, 1915, and the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815.
War has been such an enduring cultural pursuit that it challenges the myth of Australians as peace-loving people.
Here we republish the editorial of The Sydney Morning Herald of April 25, 1916, which celebrates "not so much the birth of a nation as the coming of age of our people in the riper period of full nationhood".
Helen Pitt discovers a grandfather she never knew, in letters written home to Australia en route to Gallipoli.
With the discovery of the Ottoman trench where 'first contact' took place at Anzac Cove, teams of scientists are in a race against time to preserve the Gallipoli peninsula for future generations.
The leather ammunition sash is old and brittle. But you can see it has been treasured. For years it has been stored, like a hibernating snake, with the leather curled around itself.
Crafted images of war give us a heroic story but they also obscure the horror of PTSD, which continues long after the battle is over.
While we honour the men who gave their lives, we often shy away from the harsh realities of life on the front lines.
Think you know your Suvla Bay from your Anzac Cove; your Private John Simpson from Kemal Mustafa? Take our quick quiz to see how much you know about the Gallipoli campaign.
It seemed an unpromising Gallipoli day as two paddlers in kayaks and rowers in a small flotilla of surfboats took to the waters of The Dardanelles.
Turkey has ramped up the security for the centenary Anzac Day commemorations in Gallipoli and it will be the safest place in Turkey for Australians and New Zealanders, says Australian service.
Crowds are expected to be big at Martin Place for the Dawn Service, so go early or pay your respects locally. Here is your guide to commemorating Anzac Day around Sydney and NSW.
As thousands gather in Istanbul on their way to remember the Anzac landing at Gallipoli 100 years ago, the Turkish military museum has assembled its own impressive memorial exhibition.
The bronze plaques of the Gallipoli Peninsula are back ... and this time, they are unlikely ever to be removed, even by the most determined thieves.
Many believers have found salvation in the word of God, but none so literally as Elvas Jenkins.
For both Turks and Australians, the battle for Gallipoli was about empathy, mateship and sacrifice.
Gallipoli: These are the things you need to know.
Interactive: Hundreds of people from Australia and around the world have contributed photos and details of our Anzacs.
Century-old graffiti by Allied soldiers, including Australians, has been discovered in a cave in Naours, a two-hour drive north of Paris.
"It might ruffle a few feathers but they are feathers that need to be ruffled," artist Tony Albert says of his new sculpture in Sydney's Hyde Park.
Two domes on extending arms slowly stretch from opposing sides and finally join together as one. This new installation on Sydney Harbour marks a centenary of the Great War.
The federal government has been asked to intervene to prevent the building of wind turbines on a former World War I battlefield in northern France, where 10,000 Australians became casualties of the Great War.
Black Diggers brings the stories of World War I Indigenous soldiers to the stage.
World War 1, by some measures the deadliest of all conflicts, is still as relevant today 100 years after the beginning of the event.
INTERACTIVE: Drag and drop the pieces onto the digger to build the standard infantry uniform.
The Melbourne Hebrew Congregation is holding a secular event commemorating the Gallipoli centenary, inviting six country schools to participate.
Military history buffs have identified the graves of two Victorian World War I soldiers, 98 years after they were killed in action.
On December 22, 1914, a great convoy of ships sailed from Port Melbourne bound for Albany, Western Australia, and on to what would become known as the Great War.
Ahead of Remembrance Day on Tuesday, an exhibition provides a touching insight into how those at home tried to lift the morale of the Australian boys at the front.
On the centenary today of the sinking of the German warship SMS Emden by the light cruiser HMAS Sydney at the Battle of Cocos Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove will praise Australia's achievement in what was its first naval victory.But he also has praise for the Emden's Captain Karl von Muller, who became known as 'the last gentleman of war'.
The Prime Minister, Governor-General and 60,000 others gathered in West Australia for ceremonies, speeches and re-enactments.
When Margaret Young's mother died, her father gave her a satchel of letters which gave Mrs Young an insight into the role her mother played as a nurse in World War One - something her mother rarely spoke about.
"Both non Aboriginal and Aboriginal people went to serve in the wars together and they were mates, they were all on the same level and had the same respect for each other and same friendship and I think that's the real Anzac spirit isn't it?"
Three days after Christmas in 1915, a young Australian became impatient as he stood on the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, waiting to be evacuated.
Australia's first naval victory will be remembered on Sunday as both the beginning and the end of an era.
While the crew of the HMAS Arunta are looking forward to time on land after three months, they know they have it easier than the Anzacs 100 years ago.
It was a day that Australia remembered the first losses of World War I in a battle described by the Veterans' Affairs Minister on Thursday as "the untold story".
The first of the main events commemorating the centenary of the final departure of Anzac troops is held in Albany.
Australia's greatest wartime naval mystery remains unsolved after Chief of Navy Vice-Admiral Tim Barrett said on Wednesday that he couldn't say whether new sonar images obtained by a minehunter were or were not the missing World War I submarine AE1.
As our thoughts turn towards Gallipoli for the 100th anniversary next April, the surviving widows of World War I servicemen will be a special focus of commemorations. Three of them shared their stories.
Standing adjacent a stock horse, more than 15 hands high, Graham Brown exudes the requisite confidence of the Australian Light Horse.
Exactly 100 years ago, the first soldier from a sleepy town south-west of Sydney enlisted in the Light Horse Brigade of the Australian Army.
After being unavoidably interrupted 80 years ago, the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park will be completed in accordance with the architect’s original vision.
Lighting up the the names of fallen World War I Diggers received a thumbs-up from the nation’s oldest living Victoria Cross recipient.
Herald obituarist, Tony Stephens remembers the last Gallipoli veteran, who died in 2002.
Herald journalist C. E. W. Bean was Australia's official war correspondent.
A popular British general, Viscount William Slim fought at Gallipoli and become Australia's 13th governor-general.
32 Western Australian students have been selected to attend the 2015 dawn service in Turkey.
Widows of WW1 soldiers recall their veteran husbands.
Kerryn Amery, letters from WW1
As the nation pauses to remember those who fell in war, we take a look at the life of one soldier, Raymond Baldock, who landed at Gallipoli with the Anzacs.
When Tamara Sloper Harding joined the Navy in 1987 she never imagined that she would be putting on an army uniform and heading off to the jungle in East Timor.
While it is now 100 years since the start of World War I, the mental health consequences of going into battle have been with us for as long as war itself. Effective treatment, however, has been a long time coming.
As an Aboriginal person whose family fought at Gallipoli, I am acutely aware that there many Aboriginal families who had relatives who fought there.
As Australia gears up for next year's centenary of our favourite battle, Gallipoli, we should spare a thought for the first Australian to fall in WWI, Lieutenant William Chisholm, 22, killed - not at Gallipoli - but in France at the outbreak of war.
This Anzac Day, like others in recent years, there will be controversy. Questions will be asked; answers will be contradictory.
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