Australia’s governor-general and Greece’s president turn the first soil on a $4.9 million open air museum at the former Anzac bases on Lemnos.
Australian Governor-General David Hurley and Greek President Katarina Sakellaropoulou have turned the first soil on a $4.9 million Remembrance Trail on the Greek Aegean island of Lemnos, which served as a forward base for Anzac and allied troops in the Gallipoli campaign of 1915.
Governor General Sir David Hurley and President of Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou drop flowers at Australian Pier on Lemnos where advanced parties of Australian troops first arrived in 1915.At the event on Wednesday, Mr Hurley said there would be a particular focus on the 90 Australian nurses who served on Lemnos, “the first time that Australian women had deployed overseas. Their stories and their diaries are particularly moving”.
The attendance of Greece’s president underscored the Lemnos memorial as “another layer in the relationship between Greece and Australia” and the 500,000 strong diaspora here, he said. is the opinion editor and an editorial leader writer. He covered trade and industry across the Asia-Pacific region from Singapore and Hong Kong, and is a former editor of BRW magazine.
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