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  • Discovered document uncovers 'creepy' Australian fake graves plot - Daily Telegraph November 7, 2018
    Daily TelegraphDiscovered document uncovers 'creepy' Australian fake graves plotDaily TelegraphAUSTRALIA wanted to honour its more than 8000 soldiers lost on the Western Front with fake burial plots in a plan famed author Rudyard Kipling branded “creepy” and successfully fought to block. In newly discovered minutes now made available to the ...and […]
  • They are the unknown parents of an unknown Australian soldier - but do you know who they are? - NEWS.com.au November 9, 2018
    NEWS.com.auThey are the unknown parents of an unknown Australian soldier - but do you know who they are?NEWS.com.auThe king, alongside Field Marshal Douglas Haig and Major General Sir Fabian Ware, who founded the war graves commission, visited 30 cemeteries and memorials in France and Belgium including Tyne Cot which became the largest CWGC cemetery in the . […]
  • Morrison honours war dead in Singapore - The Australian November 15, 2018
    Morrison honours war dead in SingaporeThe AustralianPrime Minister Scott Morrison has visited the graves of more than 1100 Australian World War II soldiers at the Kranji war cemetery in Singapore. Mr Morrison on Thursday morning toured 13 large walls etched with the names of the fallen, placing a poppy ...and more »
  • Burying the Unknown Soldier 25 years ago a turning point for Australia - The Canberra Times November 9, 2018
    The Canberra TimesBurying the Unknown Soldier 25 years ago a turning point for AustraliaThe Canberra TimesHe gave it at the burial service for an unknown Australian soldier, exhumed from a First World War cemetery in France, and now entombed in the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial. It was November 11, 1993, on the 75th anniversary of the end ... […]
  • Family bids farewell to infamous gangster John Macris in private Sydney burial - Neos Kosmos November 12, 2018
    Neos KosmosFamily bids farewell to infamous gangster John Macris in private Sydney burialNeos KosmosGreek Australian John Macris was laid to rest on Saturday, after his body was flown to Sydney from Athens, where the infamous gangster was shot dead two weeks ago. According to reports, a private burial was held at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney's west ...Ga […]
  • Slain Macris farewelled in Sydney by widow Victoria and family - The Australian November 11, 2018
    The AustralianSlain Macris farewelled in Sydney by widow Victoria and familyThe AustralianThe burial came a week after the 46-year-old was farewelled in a traditional Greek Orthodox funeral service at the Agios Nektarios church in the suburb of Voula in southern Athens. Close family and friends accompanied Macris's body home to Sydney.
  • Unknown Australian soldiers buried in Belgium - SBS November 6, 2018
    The AustralianUnknown Australian soldiers buried in BelgiumSBSTwo unknown Australian soldiers and an unknown British soldier have been laid to rest more a 100 years after they were killed together on the Western Front during World World One. About 200 people attended the funeral at Belgium's Tyne Cot Cemetery on ...Unknown soldiers laid to rest as […]
  • Karrakatta Cemetery renewal shocks families as headstones destroyed - WAtoday November 9, 2018
    WAtodayKarrakatta Cemetery renewal shocks families as headstones destroyedWAtodayCemetery renewal was legislated by the Western Australian Parliament in 1986. At the same time, the tenure periods of burial plots was shortened. Tenure periods of 25, 50 or 99 years had been available, but under the revised 1986 Cemeteries Act, the ...and more »
  • Thousands of poppies will be placed on the graves of war heroes at West Terrace Cemetery in the lead up to ... - NEWS.com.au November 8, 2018
    NEWS.com.auThousands of poppies will be placed on the graves of war heroes at West Terrace Cemetery in the lead up to ...NEWS.com.auMore than 4000 poppies will be placed on the graves of Australian war heroes today in the lead-up to Remembrance Day on Sunday. Adelaide Cemeteries Authority chief executive officer Robert Pitt said they put a callout to schools […]
  • Lost, and now found: a century on, a funeral for two soldiers - The Sydney Morning Herald November 12, 2018
    Herald SunLost, and now found: a century on, a funeral for two soldiersThe Sydney Morning HeraldSince then, their identities have been painstakingly pieced together by Australia's small and world-leading forensic military unit, Unrecovered War Casualties-Army. On Monday, the men were finally being granted a funeral and burial with full military ...Digge […]

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