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"Lest we Forget the Surafend Massacre. 10 December 1918. Mass killing of Palestinian villagers by ANZAC forces."

Mural in Gladigal / Sydney in memory of the victims of the premeditated massacre against the villagers of Sarafand al-Amar and a Bedouin camp by occupying Australian, New Zealand and Scottish soldiers in 1918.

The Australian participants in the murders were members of the Light Horse Brigade.

In his book Bersheeba, Australian journalist Paul Daley says this about the attitudes of Australian troops towards the Arabs in Palestine:

"For a lot of these [Australian] guys who joined the light horse, the 'natives' were aboriginal people… These guys would have grown up with living memory or family memory of massacres in and around rural properties from which Aboriginal people were dispossessed. So there was a parallel, I believe, between the way they viewed, on a human scale, the Bedouin and the town Arabs and the Aboriginal people back home."

Today is D-Day +81 years. For some people, that’s a lifetime come and gone. For others, it’s a moment in history that we read about in books, and watch in films. For all of us, it’s a day that we stop and remember the ultimate sacrifices made by the men and women of our armed forces as they fought for freedom. It’s our job now, to keep their memories and their names, alive. To remind the world what they fought for, and that they did not die in vain.

He yearned first, but she yearned harder.

March 14.

"The dawn of Passchendale. The Relay Station near Zonnebeke Station." (Multiple negative composite)

Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds) - Monday 11 November 1918

Source: British Newspaper Archive