Charles Bean would sit up late each night writing in his diaries, often by candlelight or moonlight and struggling to keep his eyes open. Now, a century after he wrote them, and 50 years after his death, extracts from his diaries have been printed together for the first time in The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean.

They trained together, served together and died together. But the story of Robert Moore and his best mate Edgar Granger is also a remarkable story of love and friendship that would unite two families during the First World War and help solve a mystery 100 years later.

When Nadine Greenaway began knitting poppies she was thinking of the soldiers who lost their lives during the First World War. For her, it was deeply personal.

He was an artist from Ballarat, whose life was forever changed by the First World War. Now 100 years on, Nelson Ferguson's remarkable story of hope and miracles is told as part of The Diggers' Requiem.

Friends and colleagues have paid tribute to Gideon Kakabin as “a lantern of knowledge, history and wisdom” and an “epic pillar of historical knowledge”.

It was October 1943, and Moss Berryman and his crewmates had just carried out one of the most daring raids of the Second World War when they were approached by a Japanese warship.

For Rob Douma, the Napier Waller Art Prize was never about winning. It was about telling their stories.

When Phillip Johnson and the team behind the 5,000 Poppies project began “planting” 62,000 poppies at the Australian War Memorial to mark the centenary of the Armistice, he was thinking of his great-grandfather, Frederick Richard Johnson.

When Lynn Berry and Margaret Knight began knitting poppies, they had no idea their small tribute would inspire people around the world and lead to a display of 62,000 poppies at the Memorial.