THE 28th of June this week marks the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, a date that many historians view as the start of the First World War (WW1) in 1914.
We pause to reflect and remember the more than nine million soldiers and around seven million civilians who lost their lives in one of the deadliest conflicts in history.
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