WWI

A political genius's writings were the spark that set off a brutal and humiliating conflict.

Korean War veteran Matthew Rennie survived being shot in the head in 1953 and will be 91 next month.

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The Australian Army conducted the service in Zonnebeke, approximately 105 years after the soldier was believed to have been killed, in the 1917 Battle of Menin Road.

Today marks the 107th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings at Anzac Cove.

Lieutenant James Kennedy lay in an unmarked grave in France for 105 years.

Victoria Police has returned a WW1 medal, thought to have been lost in 1925, to the soldier's family.

Ceremonies marking Remembrance Day 2020 have taken place around the world, with dignitaries laying wreaths, but only small crowds allowed due to the pandemic.

More than 300 metres above Turkey's Dardenelles Strait, an Australian craning company has pulled off a spectacular world-first.

Light horse brigade enthusiast David McGinness has a special link to the thousands of horses sent to war from Australia.

An indigenous Australian soldier has been identified more than 100 years after he was buried in an unnamed grave in France.

Archaeologists from across the United States are investigating a series of abandoned boats believed to date back the second World War.

At the Australian War Memorial just outside the small town of Villers-Bretonneux in northern France, the Voices of Birralee choir from Brisbane echo across thousands of war graves of fallen soldiers.

On this day in 1914 the Royal Australian Navy suffered its first causalities of WW1 when the HMAS AE1 disappeared without a trace.

He was described today as one of the most remarkable unknown Australians.

9NEWS reporter Chris O'Keefe has traced the story of his great-grandfather who, like so many young men, was sent off to fight in WWI.

Nobody knows if Albert John Handcock made it to the beach before he was killed at Gallipoli, but his death saw all seven of his brothers enlist.

In the corner of a communal cemetery in the small French village of Le Rejet-de-Beaulieu, three graves lie in a row by themselves.

He’s Australia’s greatest soldier- but those behind a push to honour World War One General, Sir John Monash, say he’s being repeatedly snubbed by our governments.

After more than a century of uncertainty, the families of nine Australian World War One heroes are now able to visit their slain relatives’ graves for the first time.

A Philadelphia medical museum said Tuesday it will return the skull of an Australian soldier who was killed in World War I to the Australian Army.

A century after the battle that claimed the lives of 7000 Australians, families gather in the French village of Pozieres to remember their loved ones.

Three unknown Australian soldiers whose remains lay where they fell for nearly a century have at last been given funerals and now rest with more than 700 of their mates in the French countryside.

An audio recording allegedly containing eye-witness accounts of possible war crimes by Australian soldiers during WWI has surfaced.