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		<title>ANZAC Day at Gallipoli &#8211; Simpson Prize 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Baines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wreath ordeley dutiesWell today was the day, the pinnacle of the experience and certainly a big part of why these students entered the prize. The day started for us with a midnight wake up call. We needed to allow plenty of time to beat the traffic and certainly to get as close as we can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WWI letters &amp; diaries at the Memorial.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Jamesion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Memorial gears up for WWI Centenary commemorations, AWM cataloguer &#38; indexer, Sue Jamesion, begins work on a diary from 1914, 3DRL/6061With the Centenary of the Great War of 1914-1918 only a few years away, staff in the Research Centre at the Australian War Memorial are busily working on a variety of special projects aimed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Close Shaves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Currey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I had a very close shave&#8230;” (Pte C H Lester, 1 October 1917) As many soldiers will testify, war can be as much about luck as it is about training and equipment. Luck can take many forms, such as being in the right place at the right time, and the closely related not being in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAAF Biographical Files from the Second World War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessie Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the outbreak of the Second World War, there were some 450 Australians serving with the Royal Air Force (RAF) on short-term commissions. Once the Empire Air Training Scheme got underway, thousands more Australians arrived in Britain. Many of them were posted to Royal Air Force squadrons, even though they were members of the Royal Australian Air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there an overall index to colonial defence personnel pre 1900?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Holcombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, 1 September, is Ask a Curator day on Twitter.  One of the first questions we had was this one: Q: Is there an overall index to colonial defence personnel pre 1900 either for each state or together? The answer is, not really, but there are some starting places.  Because there is too much information [...]]]></description>
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