ANZAC

Greece and Australia are creating a Remembrance Trail on the Aegean island of Lemnos in honor of the Australian troops killed in the First World War. The Australian Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Matt Keogh has confirmed a pledge announced last...

The Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, announced recently the funding of $4.9 million in the 2022-23 budget for the Lemnos Remembrance Trail to honor fallen heroes of the Gallipoli campaign. The Lemnos Remembrance Trail will honor the service of...

The Greek Consulate in Melbourne honored the sole surviving ANZAC veteran from the Battle of Crete in a ceremony held on Thursday. 96-year-old Norman Maddock, who served in the 2nd/7th Australian Infantry Battalion, was also for a time a prisoner...

Hundreds turned up to see the Evzones, the Greek Presidential Guard, marching at Bondi Beach on Sunday for the ANZAC Day ceremonies. The crowd came to a standstill as the Evzones participating in the festivities to commemorate those who served and...

Every year since 2002, Unibic Anzac Biscuit tins have presented a new set of collectible tins which commemorate significant events of Australia's service members in war and symbols of remembrance. For 2017, one of the tins is adorned with the...

On August 13th the Hellenic community of Melbourne celebrated the role of soldiers and nurses who served on Lemnos in the Gallipoli campaign. There were over 100 people in attendance at the newly built Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial. The attendants were...

New Zealanders and Australians took part in the unveiling of a monument dedicated to Australians, New Zealanders and Maori who fought at Tsikalaria, Crete, on May 27, 1941. Their heroic World War II battle, known as the Battle of...

The Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee announced today the details for its forthcoming unveiling of Australia's newest Gallipoli memorial - The Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial. The event will take place at 11:00 am on Saturday, August 8, 2015 - a hundred years to the...

On April 29, 2015 the opening of the art exhibition "Lemnos - the Greek dimension in the ANZAC Centenary" took place in Canberra, as part of the events for the Centenary of the Australian and New Zealand Expeditionary Corps,...

Deputy Defense Minister Costas Isychos represented Greece's government in the commemoration event at Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey, for the 100-year anniversary of the ANZAC landing. Isychos, who was accompanied by the Ambassador of Greece to Ankara Kyriakos Loukakis, laid a wreath to...