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Veterans headstone project fears funding promise falls short of need
By Briana Fiore and Sophie Holder

The Headstone Project SA questions why less money than promised appears to be available in federal government grants for veterans' graves.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/headstone-project-funding-concerns/107133716

#Veterans #WorldWarI #BrianaFiore #SophieHolder

March of the ANZACs: For piano solo , c.1916

Sheet music of Alexander F. Lithgow's 'March of the Anzacs: For piano solo'.
Cover illustration depicts Gallipoli Peninsula and the landing of troops and supplies at Gabatepe.
University of Otago via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/35201335/source

#Music #WorldWarI #SheetMusic #Museums #UniversityOfOtago

March of the ANZACs: For piano solo , c.1916

Sheet music of Alexander F. Lithgow's 'March of the Anzacs: For piano solo'.
Cover illustration depicts Gallipoli Peninsula and the landing of troops and supplies at Gabatepe.
University of Otago via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/35201335/source

#Music #WorldWarI #SheetMusic #Museums #UniversityOfOtago

March of the ANZACs: For piano solo , c.1916

Sheet music of Alexander F. Lithgow's 'March of the Anzacs: For piano solo'.
Cover illustration depicts Gallipoli Peninsula and the landing of troops and supplies at Gabatepe.
University of Otago via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/35201335/source

#Music #WorldWarI #SheetMusic #Museums #UniversityOfOtago

March of the ANZACs: For piano solo , c.1916

Sheet music of Alexander F. Lithgow's 'March of the Anzacs: For piano solo'.
Cover illustration depicts Gallipoli Peninsula and the landing of troops and supplies at Gabatepe.
University of Otago via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/35201335/source

#Music #WorldWarI #SheetMusic #Museums #UniversityOfOtago

「Lest we forget – SS Mendi 21 February 1917

The #SouthAfricanNativeLabourCorps men aboard her came from a range of social backgrounds, and from a number of different peoples spread over the South African provinces and neighbouring territories. (287 were from #Transvaal, 139 from the #EasternCape, 87 from #Natal, 27 from #NorthernCape, 26 from the #OrangeFreeState, 26 from #Basutoland, eight from #Bechuanaland [#Botswana], five from #WesternCape, one from #Rhodesia and one from #SouthWestAfrica). Most had never seen the sea before this voyage, and very few could swim. The officers and NCOs were white Southern Africans.

[...]

Poignantly, 21 February 2024 did not see military celebrations but the sombre repatriation to South Africa of two SA National Defence force soldiers killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a rebel mortar strike last week.」

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/military-history/lest-we-forget-ss-mendi-21-february-1917/

#Mendi #SouthAfrica #MilitaryHistory #History #WorldWarI #France #Congo #SANDF #SouthAfricanArmy #SouthAfricanNavy #NavalHistory