The Wire

With ANZAC day coming up on Wednesday, thoughts are inevitably turning to some of the wars that Australian troops have fought in over the past century. And this year, the tragic battlefields of the First World War will see two rounds of commemorations; firstly on Anzac Day, and then later in the year, on the ninetieth anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele. Many of the Australian and New Zealand forces fought over the small village of Passchendael, in Belgium – close to another small town called Zonnerbeek. They captured a ridge, where many of them are buried today, at the Tyne Cot cemetery for war dead.