Tag: Anzac day
In 1919, Anzac Day was commemorated despite the Spanish flu pandemic. In 2020, we will remember them again
Picture: AAP/Paul Miller
Anzac Day 2020 will be a far cry from the Australian War Memorial’s dawn service of recent years. While dignified and solemn,...
Before the Anzac biscuit, soldiers ate a tile so hard you could write on it
Christmas hard tack biscuit: Boer War.
Australian War Memorial. Accession Number: REL/10747.
Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial
Before Anzac biscuits found the sticky sweet...
Why China will be watching how we commemorate Anzac Day
The Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, is marked by Chinese people by going to the cemetery to clean up tombs, bring flowers,...