Australian ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day Song

New website for the song at http://www.australianwarheroes.com You can link to the
new website for the song or tell others about it. The success of the song meant it was
necessary to create a domain that was unique to the song and gave it a permanent home
on the Internet. The song has over a million hits online with this website, YouTube, and other
websites that include the song. Take a look at the new website.

This website started back in the mid 90s, well before Google was even thought of. In the
beginning it was a website Peter Barnes put together for info about his advertising and
marketing business. If you want a business or organisation easily found on search engines
like Google with the keywords you want, then take a look at the website Be Found Online
(Peter's online business). Since 2001, the war heroes song has taken over more and more
of this website. As the website is now old, and image wise, out of date, it was necessary to
create a website for the song independent of this one. The website is kept alive today,
mainly because it still gets a lot of visitors looking for the song.

No recording or publishing company in Australia has shown any interest in the song over
the past eight years. If it wasn't for this website, our Australian war heroes would have not
been heard matching once again across our great land through this song. The global
aspect of the internet also allowed many people from other countries to hear the song.
For instance a publishing house in Norway asked for the song.

"The Norwegian publishing house Aschehoug is about to publish a new series of English schoolbooks
for 8-10th grade in the Norwegian market. In this new series, called Key English, we want to make use
of the song "Can You Hear Australia's Heroes Marching".

Over 1,000 people a day view videos relating to the song on YouTube alone. Peter's
YouTube channel has passed one million video views, with most viewing videos relating to
the song. Click here to go to the YouTube channel. You can see videos of the song for
WW1, WW2, the Vietnam War and more.

The heroes song was created from Peter's experience in visiting the Adelaide River War
Cemetery (114 kms south of Darwin) in the Northern Territory and seeing the graves of
Australians who gave their lives in the service and defence of their country. Peter felt he
should do something within his capabilities to honour the memory of such incredible sacrifice.

A total of 434 war graves marked by bronze plaques are contained in the Adelaide River
War Cemetery. The burials are made up of 14 airmen of the RAF, 12 unidentified men of the
British Merchant Navy; one soldier of the Canadian Army; 18 sailors, 181 soldiers and 201
airmen of the Australian Forces and seven men of the Australian Merchant Navy.
The Northern Territory Memorial to the Missing honours a further 292 Servicemen and
women lost to the north of Australia. The adjacent civil section contains the graves of the
nine Post Office staff killed on 19 February 1942 during the bombing of Darwin, one of 63
separate occasions from that date. The civilian casualties of WW2 include those of 31
Indigenous Australians.

"To stand on my homeland, surrounded by our war dead, who fought heroically to defend
Australia and their loved ones down the track, was a profound experience and initiated
the creation of the song."
Peter Barnes

NEW: You can watch a video of the Adelaide River War Cemetery here

Click here for the 4 minute version of the song (has additional words).

Click here for other inspiring Australian Songs by the author of the war heroes song (this is
a new website).

Many Australians who lost their lives in war weren't thinking they could save the world or defeat evil regimes.
As in the trenches of France, and the patrols in Vietnam, or on the Kokoda Track, Australians were looking
after their mates alongside them. Many Australian veterans march on ANZAC Day in memory of their mates
left behind, and the ones that have passed on before them.

The words (lyrics) to the song have been requested to be used or read at commemorative ceremonies.
You can click here to download the words to the song (pdf file).

Peter Barnes initiated this song in 2001. He is the author (and copyright owner) of the song and he
created the concept, title and lyrics. You can contact Peter by email here

Adelaide River War Cemetery

ANZAC Day

'Can you hear Australia's heroes marching?' © Peter Barnes 2001 - 2009. All Rights Reserved.

All content on this page and on the video remains the property of the respective copyright holders. The song