Anzac Day: Centenary march wraps up in Brisbane and other top stories.

• Anzac Day: Centenary march wraps up in Brisbane

  

  Anzac Day: Centenary march wraps up in Brisbane Updated April 25, 2016 13:05:21 Booming marching band tunes, cheers and applause filled the air as thousands of military personnel and their support groups made their way through the Brisbane CBD for the march marking the 100th anniversary of Anzac Day parades.The march was headed by serving members of the RAAF.Also at the head of the procession was World War II veteran Sidney Turvey, 95, who fought with the 24th Battalion..

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• Anzac Day: Thousands travel to Brisbane's Shrine of Remembrance ...

  

  Anzac Day: Thousands travel to Brisbane's Shrine of Remembrance for dawn service Updated April 25, 2016 16:49:41 Brisbane's Anzac Square has overflowed with thousands of people who paid their respects to Australia's fallen soldiers at this morning's dawn service.Crowds gathered in silence well before the start of the service at 4:28am to find the best vantage points of the city's Shrine of Remembrance at Anzac Square on Adelaide Street.They were also commemorating the 1..

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• Brisbane streets lined to mark Anzac Day

  By Shae McDonald - AAP on April 25, 2016, 5:03 pm Generations of families have turned out in force for Brisbane's Anzac Day commemorations. They may have served more than 70 years ago, but the memories remain all too real for many servicemen and women.It was those memories that inspired tens of thousands of Queenslanders, young and old, to participate in Brisbane's 100th consecutive Anzac Day commemorations.At 94, Grahame Bernard Tweedale was told he might not be able to walk in the..

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• Western Sydney Wanderers vanquish Brisbane Roar as Nikolai ...

  

  Western Sydney Wanderers vanquish Brisbane Roar as Nikolai Topor-Stanley's men prevail in A-League classic Updated April 25, 2016 11:50:35 Western Sydney skipper Nikolai Topor-Stanley laughed every time he heard someone call Brisbane the A-League's comeback kings.Because he knew every member of his team had been painstakingly instilled with the Tony Popovic traits of a calm mind and unmatched fitness.The Wanderers' season appeared certain to be over when they trailed 3-..

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• Body found in drum north of Brisbane

  

  Body found in drum north of Brisbane

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• 'It's our duty': Brisbane marks Anzac dawn

  When asked what draws them to Brisbane's Anzac Day dawn service, people use the same words: Profound. Solemn. Reverent. Duty. "I just feel like everybody has some story to tell," Coorparoo local Janet McDonald says. Pinned to her woollen shawl, under the customary rosemary, is a picture of her grandfather who fought in the Battle of the Somme. He would have toiled alongside his comrades on Turkey's rugged Gallipoli peninsula but was diverted at the last minute. While he survived the war, Janet ..

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