Wednesday, April 25, 2018

ANZAC Lest We Forget: Frames of Bravery

On the eve of Anzac Day, war mural steals a town's heart


Art from the heart: the mural the people of Devenish, in northern Victoria funded on its old silos depicts two service women, 100 years apart: a WWI nurse and a modern day army medic

ANZAC Day: the love story of a lifetime

Anzac Day: John Monash a leader without peer

Brothers who died at Sandakan get first Anzac Day service from family

Anzac war hero calls for schools teach more Aussie war history




Recovering New Zealand's wartime fallen


The story of New Zealand's fallen soldiers who remain buried in foreign fields, often unprotected, and the whanau who want to bring their remains home, is told in a new Maori TV documentary. In Foreign Fields is hosted by Witi Ihimaera who shares his own story - the pressure to return the body of one of his relations to Aotearoa New Zealand. In Foreign Fields is directed by John Keir. John had his own story of a lost soldier in his wife's family, and they'd visited Gallipoli so they could find his grave. But John tells Lynn Freeman that's not what started him down the path of suggesting the documentary to Maori TV. In Foreign Fields premieres on ANZAC Day on Maori TV


Professor Peter Stanley from the University of New South Wales, is the author of Die in Battle (2015), the first book to recognise Indians serving in the Gallipoli campaign.




Titled ‘Duty, Honour, Country’- the display will include a collection of black and white photographs and artefacts of Sikh soldiers who served in Malaya, Singapore, Burma(Myanmar), Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Korea, the Middle East Africa and Europe.
The curator of this exhibition is Harchand Singh Bedi who told SBS Punjabi that most of the photographs are from the archives of the Imperial War Museum in Elephant and Castle, London.
Remembering the turbaned titans of World Wars


Guru Gobind Singh's famous words;


Chirian to mein baaz tudaun.
Gidran to mein sher banaun.
Sawa lakh se ek ladaun. Tabe Gobind Singh Naam kahaun.

(It is when I make sparrows fight hawks and
mould 'giddars' into lions,
that I am called Gobind Singh).







Harchand Singh Bedi Sikh Soldiers 
Honour & Duty: A Tribute to Sikh Valour:


Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke on Berlioz and Steve Jobs


Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke has played Apple co-founder Steve Job's wife Lauren, and mountaineer Rob Hall's wife Jan Arnold in contemporary, world premiere operas. She says she relishes the challenge of being the first singer to tackle a role. The (Re)volution of Steve Jobs earned her adoring reviews. But Sasha's next appointment is with the classical repertoire and one of her great loves, the work of French composers, for a three-centre tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

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