Australia loses one of last World War I veterans
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One of Australia's last surviving World War I veterans and a recipient of France's Legion of Honor medal has died at the age of 105.
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RADCLIFF, Kentucky  - A decorated U.S. Army veteran who was wounded in Iraq and then deserted to Canada to protest the war as a mistake surrendered to the military on Tuesday.
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An Australian peacekeeper was shot dead on patrol in the troubled Solomon Islands capital Honiara on Wednesday, the first Australian casualty under a new, tougher security policy in the South Pacific.
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For the first time, a Pentagon group charged with finding and identifying U.S. war dead from foreign battlefields has identified the remains of a soldier killed in World War I, officials said Friday.
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The death of elderly man in his Sydney  apartment, which went undiscovered for more than a year, had  Australians questioning their loss of community spirit on  Thursday.
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France's oldest man, a First World War veteran who refused a medal and spoke powerfully about the horrors of war, has died at 110, leaving just one veteran alive from the conflict.
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Russell A. Buchanan, one of the nation's last surviving World War I veterans, has died. He was 106.
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The bodies of two Australian soldiers were returned to home soil on Tuesday, almost 42 years after they were killed in battle in Vietnam, leaving only four Australians listed as missing in action from the conflict.
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BRISBANE, Australia  - An Australian politician, whose father was held in a German labour camp during the Second World War, said he plans to withdraw his allegiance to the Queen after seeing a photo of Prince Harry wearing a Nazi armband.
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Keith Miller, the most charismatic Australian cricketer of his generation, has died in a nursing home near Melbourne. He was 84 and had been in poor health for some time.
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[Sports India, Cricket]: Melbourne, Oct 11 : Legendary Australian Test cricketer and fighter pilot Keith Ross Miller Monday died in a nursing home here.
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, the Polish  soldier who made death-defying trips between Warsaw and London  during the Second World War to carry messages to Poland's  government-in-exile, died in Warsaw late on Thursday.
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One of the last two surviving French World War I veterans, Louis de Cazenave, dies in his sleep at the age of 110.
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J. Russell Coffey, the oldest known surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. The retired teacher was one of only three U.S. veterans from the "war to end all wars."
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Miller, who played in Don Bradman&#39;s Invincibles team on the 1948 tour to England, passed away peacefully at a nursing home on the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne, a family spokesman said Monday.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa - A World War I veteran's watch lost nearly 90 years ago, has stood the test of time. William B. Gill lost his watch in France, where he served in the U.S. Army. Another man, Carl Grothaus, won it in a poker game and brought it back to South Dakota.
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France's oldest man, a First World War  veteran who refused a medal and spoke powerfully about the  horrors of war, has died at 110, leaving just one veteran alive  from the conflict.