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Australian and New Zealand Army Corps

Raising of ANZAC The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps was raised on 24 November 1914.

Australians in the Battle of Mont St Quentin 31 August to 3 Sept 1918

… we reached a trench strongly held by the enemy. With bomb and bayonet we forced them back, making our way gradually along …

Battle of Hamel 4 July 1918

Role of the Australians The Allies aimed to take the high ground east of the village of Le Hamel, south of the River Somme.

Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean

Charles Edwin Woodrow (CEW) Bean, historian and journalist, was born on 18 November 1879 in Bathurst, where his father was headmaster of All Saints' College.

First Australian Imperial Force in World War I

Before the warAustralia's Regular Army was a young, evolving force when war broke out.

Leslie James Morshead

Early life Sir Leslie James Morshead was born on 18 September 1889 in Ballarat East, Victora. He was one of 6 children to William Morshead and Mary Eliza.

Mary Katherine 'Molly' Coleman

Mary Coleman's Australian Imperial Force (AIF) service record notes that she was born at Hay in New South Wales, though newspaper reports at the time of her death claimed that she came to Western A

Medical treatment of Australian soldiers in World War I

Illnesses and devastating injuries The Australian Government recorded 215,585 casualties during the war.

Padre Dexter: Australians in World War I (Video)

Anglican minister and former sailor Walter Ernest Dexter served as an Army Chaplain in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during World War I. Padre Dexter was well-known among Australian troops in…

Phillip Frederick Edward Schuler

William Riddell Birdwood

The 'soul of Anzac'

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