In 1919, Anzac Day was commemorated despite the Spanish flu pandemic. In 2020, we will remember them again
- Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University

Anzac Day 2020 will be a far cry from the Australian War Memorial’s dawn service of recent years. While dignified and solemn, the dawn service has also been spectacle. Sophisticated technology is used to project images from the memorial’s photographic collection onto the building. From an hour before the service, members...