It’s a send-off that will honour Mr Leggett’s enormous bravery — both on the battlefield and in prison camps and back in civilian life.
Editorial
Harvey blows the lid on a national disgrace – the dozens of Gallipoli Diggers buried anonymously under footpaths and in garden beds because of a cemetery’s decision to ‘renew’ their graves.
Ben Harvey
For the Diggers, May 8, 1945, may have been Victory in Europe or VE Day, but the date of their own victory in the Pacific war was still unknown.
Malcolm Quekett
As Australia prepares for the State funeral of Arthur Leggett, dozens of soldiers who served in the Great War lie with little or no recognition at Karrakatta Cemetery in often disrespectful states.
Tens of thousands of West Australians across regional Western Australia have attended Anzac Day dawn services and other commemorative events to remember the sacrifices of those who have served the country.
Melissa Pedelty, Josephine Hingst, Cain Andrews and Craig Duncan
Thousands attend Anzac Day services in Margaret River region and wider South West last week, honouring the sacrifice of service men and women on the 110th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing.
Craig Duncan
Hundreds of people gathered to commemorated Anzac Day in Collie this morning for the annual dawn and morning services.
Sofia Fimognari
Wagin’s iconic war memorial celebrated its century anniversary with a dawn service the Wagin RSL president believes to be its best attended yet.
Melissa Sheil
The launch of the collaborative war memorial book Dumbleyung And Districts Those who Served played a fitting role in the town’s Anzac Day remembrances on Friday.
Claire Middleton
HMAS Toowoomba and its 190 officers and sailors paid Albany a visit for the 2025 Anzac Day services and commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli.
Georgia Campion
The Katanning community gathered before the sun rose on Friday, adorned in the medals of their relatives and winter wear to fight the cold, for the town’s largest Anzac Day service in years.
Hannah Whitehead
Veterans, family members, shires, emergency services, schools and community groups across the Great Southern united on Friday to commemorate Anzac Day.
Veterans, community members and loved ones gathered in Bunbury on Anzac Day to commemorate those who served the nation at war — in the 110th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing
Ezra Kaye
The Narrogin 2025 troop march and Anzac Day service drew a crowd of about 300 to Memorial Park on Friday morning to commemorate the sacrifice of those who’ve served.
The indomitable Anzac spirit infused events across the nation, as Australians united to mark the 110 years since Australian and New Zealand forces landed on Gallipoli.
John Flint, Emily Moulton, Claire Sadler
Every year on April 25, Australians across the country gather at pubs and community halls to play two-up to commemorate Anzac Day.
Chloe Maher
Quinns Rocks Sports Club was alight with energy, smiles, and laughter on Friday afternoon as the community joined together for a beer, Two-up, and Anzac Day commemorations.
Artemisia Blythe
It is remarkable that this needs to be said. But an Anzac Day dawn service is not the appropriate vehicle for a political protest.
Mandurah’s dawn service had no one to play the Last Post when, by chance, a travelling trumpeter made a phone call.
Rachel Fenner
Citizens of Albany and beyond paid their respects to Australia’s servicemen and women as thousands gathered at the Anzac Peace Park for the Commemoration Service on Friday headlined by Maj-Gen. Jason BIain.
People travelled hundreds of kilometres across the State to attend this year’s Anzac Day services in Albany, sharing their personal connection to the Anzac legend with the Advertiser.
Jacki Elezovich
Tens of thousands of West Australians across the State have attended Anzac Day dawn services and other commemorative events to remember the sacrifices of those who have served the country.
Staff Reporters
Hundreds lined Albany’s footpaths on Friday morning as veterans, servicemen, and local groups prepared to march down York Street to the Anzac Peace Park for the mid-morning commemorative service.
Solemn Anzac Day memorials has been marred by booing and racist remarks by hecklers who interrupted Indigenous Australian acknowledgements at dawn services.
Caitlyn Rintoul and Claire Sadler
