Wake Up Australia

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

I am surprised Breaker Morant never came up.

But seeing as you mention him....

There was a story in one of the early editions of "Wartime" magazine from the AWM dealing with him. One of the photos accompanying the article showed his coffin before the burial (this was 1902), and it was draped with the Australian Flag. It struck me as surprising that the caption noted that this was "the 4th version of the flag"! Get that? The flag that was first flown in Sep 1901 was up to it's 4th evolution by 1902!! Changes included the positioning of the stars, the length of the points of the stars, and the number of points of each star. It was not until 1908 that our current flag was finalised!