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Greece and Australia Create ANZAC Remembrance Trail on Lemnos
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...
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Australia Funds Remembrance Trail on the Greek Island of Lemnos
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...
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Greek Island of Lemnos Commemorates Anzac Day
The island of Lemnos commemorated Anzac Day (April 25) with the annual ceremony taking place without public attendance due to the pandemic
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Lemnos Gallipoli Committee Commemorates Armistice Day 1918
The Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee participated in a service by the Oakleigh-Carnegie RSL Sub-Branch on Sunday in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day in 1918.
The celebration featured the Oakleigh Band, a wreath laying and a Catafalque procession,...
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First Annual Commemoration of the Role of Lemnos in the Gallipoli Campaign
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...
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Unveiling of New Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial Announced
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...
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Lemnos – Gallipoli Project: Women in War
Preparations for the Lemnos-Gallipoli Project: Women in War are finally coming to an end. The international cultural project is organized in commemoration of the 100th anniversary since the Gallipoli campaign, which cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Thousands of...
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Lemnos Gallipoli Photographic Exhibition
The Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee will be holding a major new fundraising event - the Lemnos Gallipoli Photographic Exhibition. The exhibition showcases forty of the most important images from the photographic record of Lemnos' role in the Anzac story.
This photographic archive is...
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Australians and New Zealanders Traveling to Lemnos in April
This April the Greek island of Lemnos will be flooded with visitors from Australia and New Zealand, including several Australian politicians. Navy ships from both countries will sail to Lemnos, along with cruise ships and private yachts for the...
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Melbourne: Statue in Honor of Lemnos
Representatives of the Australian armed forces, Australian veterans, many Australian politicians and many Greek-Australians attended an event held in St Kilda town Hall, organized by the Returned Services League (RSL) in collaboration with Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee.
The organizers of the event aimed to raise...
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Statue in Australia Honors Lemnos and the Aegean Sea
A bronze statue that depicts a nurse and a soldier in Lemnos Island will be set up in the seaside district of Albert Park, Melbourne. Its purpose is to highlight and remind the young generations of the important role...
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$40,000 Raised for Lemnos Memorial Statue
The event which took place at the Parliament House of Victoria aiming to raise money in order to establish a monument that will honor the contribution of Lemnos at the battle of Gallipoli, raised an amount of $40,000.
“My grandfather...
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Greek Australian Funds Renovation of Historic Bridge in Lemnos
The well-known music composer of Australia Pantelis Volaris, who is from the Greek island of Lemnos, founded the renovation of the historic “Kountouriotis Bridge” where the Greek admiral and naval hero Pavlos Kountouriotis raised the Greek flag during the...
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The Role of Lemnos in the Gallipoli Campaign
In 2015, Australia will celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Australian forces landing in Gallipoli on April 25, 1915. The Gallipoli Campaign was the first major battle undertaken in World War I by Australia and New Zealand, and is...
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Thousands of Australians to Visit Lemnos on ANZAC Day
On April 23, 2012, Lemnos island will be full of Australian MPs and citizens to honor the Australians and New Zealanders soldiers who died in Greece during World War I.
Some Greek expatriates, in cooperation with the Australians, have organized the...