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Anzac Day

Image of Private Herbert Cooke and Memorial Plaque at Eumundi Museum
People & History

Beyond the battlefield: Preserving the past between the Diocese and the Australian Defence Force

“On Anzac Day, we remember those that paid the ultimate sacrifice. To ensure that their memory — and all those we memorialise within our Diocese — is not forgotten or lost, we should ensure that the record of that memory (not just the physical object) is created, captured and preserved,” says Diocesan Archivist Michael Rogers
Reflections

“I knew a simple soldier boy”

“Siegfried Sassoon was an English soldier during World War I. Born into a wealthy Jewish family, before the war Siegfried lived the life of a member of the landed gentry…While fighting the war he was decorated for bravery because of his actions on the Western Front. He also became severely depressed as he came to terms with what war was like,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt

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