After watching his veteran father plant it 90 years ago,John returns to a great elm at the Shrine

After watching his veteran father plant it 90 years ago,John returns to a great elm at the Shrine

Dr John Miller will be a guest of honour at the Shrine of Remembrance on Monday. He attended the inauguration of the Shrine on November 11,1934.

  • byTony Wright

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‘Machine guns and men in trenches’:On the eve of battle,Albert Jacka made an awful discovery

‘Machine guns and men in trenches’:On the eve of battle,Albert Jacka made an awful discovery

In early 1917,as the Allies prepared to take Bullecourt on the Western Front,Jacka was sent into No-Man’s Land.

  • byPeter FitzSimons
‘Well,I managed to get the buggers,sir’:The daring plan that created a legend

‘Well,I managed to get the buggers,sir’:The daring plan that created a legend

Albert Jacka was Australia’s first Victoria Cross recipient for his actions in Gallipoli when Turkish troops launched an attack on troops dug in at Courtney’s Post.

  • byPeter FitzSimons
Triumph and tragedy:A front-page view of history
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Triumph and tragedy:A front-page view of history

As The Age celebrates 170 years,we look back on some of the most notable major events featuring on our front pages over the decades.

The blessed gift of good-hearted neighbours
Tony Wright’s Column
Inheritance

The blessed gift of good-hearted neighbours

Good neighbours are a treasure,as a group of countrymen proved to my grandfather in his time of need after World War I.

  • byTony Wright
Not all plain sailing in God’s country
Opinion
Column 8

Not all plain sailing in God’s country

Maybe it’s time to quit jibing in clubland.

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Pigeon sleepovers,margarine models and human remains:The true history of the Shrine

Pigeon sleepovers,margarine models and human remains:The true history of the Shrine

A new graphic narrative tells little-known yarns about the Shrine of Remembrance.

  • byCarolyn Webb
Why a silent prayer at the grave of someone I never met was so exquisitely meaningful
Opinion
Religion

Why a silent prayer at the grave of someone I never met was so exquisitely meaningful

Our commemorations for the dead take us inevitably into the extraordinary and unknowable.

  • byJane E Sullivan
Wildfires across Turkey threaten Anzac graves on Gallipoli peninsula

Wildfires across Turkey threaten Anzac graves on Gallipoli peninsula

At the site where an Allied landing was beaten back by Ottoman troops in 1915,the flames reached Canterbury Cemetery,where 22 soldiers from New Zealand are interred.

  • byRob Harris
‘My beautiful boy’:The diary of a heart broken at Fromelles
Perspective
History

‘My beautiful boy’:The diary of a heart broken at Fromelles

Frontline nurse Alice Ross-King’s World War I diaries tell of a great love - and a dreadful tragedy.

  • byTony Wright
He died 106 years ago,but in one French village they’ll never forget this Australian Olympian

He died 106 years ago,but in one French village they’ll never forget this Australian Olympian

Cecil Healy died the day after the battle of the Somme was won. More than a century later,his legacy for bravery and sportsmanship live on in Australia and France.

  • byRob Harris