Show threadThis Is My GlasgowMay 20

His elder brother, Walter, had died around seven months earlier on the Western Front at Loos in France (where Rudyard Kipling's son John was declared missing in action, a loss immortalised in Kipling's poem My Boy Jack), while a few months later, his younger brother, Struthers, died at the Battle of Romani on the Isthmas of Suez in Egypt (the last battle in the campaign to defend the Suez Canal from German and Ottoman troops).

#glasgow #cathcartcemetery #anzac #gallipoli #wwi

Show threadThis Is My GlasgowMay 20

Born in Kinning Park in 1887, Matthew Findlay was educated at Glasgow Academy and moved to New Zealand in the early 1910s. While there, he signed up for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, where he served as a Lance Corporal with the Wellington Infantry Regiment. He was injured at Gallipoli (one of over 250,000 allied casualties in the campaign) and returned to his native Glasgow where he later died from the wounds he'd recieved.

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This Is My GlasgowMay 20

A memorial I came across in Cathcart Cemetery while looking for a different one. It details the deaths of all three sons from the same Glasgow family in World War I in a period of less than 12 months between September 1915 and August 1916.

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The Victorian NewsMay 19

Charlie Tidmarsh and Edith Pope: charged after RSL buildings graffitied on ANZAC Day
#ausnews #vicnews #rwnj #sovcits #cookers #ANZAC #roasted #wap #mfa #ffa #nsn #nazi

https://www.victoriannews.com.au/news/melbourne-news/charlie-tidmarsh-and-edith-pope-charged-after-rsl-buildings-graffitied-on-anzac-day/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Charlie Tidmarsh and Edith Pope: charged after RSL buildings graffitied on ANZAC Day

HEIDELBERG, VIC. — Charlie Ann Tidmarsh, 20, and Edith Pope, 22, yesterday made their first appearance in the Heidelberg Magistrates Court after they were arrested whilst allegedly graffitiing the Bell St RSL last month.

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RaymondPierreL3May 12

Lest We Forget

“Australian paratrooper Warrant Officer Class Two Lachlan Muddle killed during training exercise at Jervis Bay”

Today, we also remember those who lost their lives away from the battelfields. RIP WO2 Muddle. We will remember them.

https://newsapp.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-12/australian-soldier-killed-during-parachute-training/106669370

#ANZAC #ADF

Australian paratrooper Warrant Officer Class Two Lachlan Muddle killed during training exercise at Jervis Bay - ABC News

Warrant Officer Class Two Lachlan Muddle, a highly qualified special forces sniper and military free-fall parachutist, has died after a mid-air collision with another paratrooper during an Army training exercise.  

Ashraf GhebraniousApr 28
Oh for fucks sake RSL! Instead of removing welcome to country, remove white people from the fucking ceremony. Clearly whites are disrespectful cunts. Less whites = better ceremony. #auspol #anzac #NoCuntsYouAreNotWelcomeNowFuckOffBackToWhiteland
spmatich vk3spm Apr 27
I was at the Dawn Service in Castlemaine Victoria on Anzac Day this year. It was a modest service that included an acknowledgment of first peoples and was very respectful (no booing). There was also a speech by a young First Nations student who acknowledged the contribution of indigenous Australians who fought in the wars long before indigenous Australians were accepted/recognised as Australian. It was entirely appropriate. Lest we forget. #ANZAC
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-27/rsl-australia-to-review-welcome-to-country-policy-for-anzac-day/106612798
Errol CavitApr 26
Some NZ Warbirds Harvards heading out for #Anzac Day flypasts, sponsored by the Auckland RSA.
#AvGeek #Aviation
Paul ArmstrongApr 26

I've seen a fair number of random "I support BRS" comments lately. A bit of a plague, especially around ANZAC day.

As someone who has served I have rather strong opinions on the matter. Primarily, that this is a judicial issue and it's for the courts to decide. Albo is correct in refusing to comment.

A lot of people also need to come to terms with the fact that someone can be a war hero and a war criminal at the same time.

https://www.otoh.org/post/2026/04/heroism-war-crimes-and-the-rule-of-law/

#Auspol #ANZAC

OTOH - Heroism, War Crimes and The Rule of Law

On The Other Hand
JakraApr 26

Anyone got photos from the menin gate service in Ypres for Anzac Day? Hoping to spot some family members if you’d share! #anzac #anzacDay #ypres #ieper #meninGate

Please share, it’s way outside my usual range!