The inland regional town of Albury offered various advantages as a hub of military activity during the Second World War. The ...

The Memorial holds a Private Records collection related to 180644 Captain (later Major) Ralph Lawrence Sadler. The collection contains documents, newspaper clippings and notebooks related to Sadler’s ...

Transcript of diaries relating to the First World War service of Sister Alice Ross-King, Australian Army Nursing Service. The transcript contains all of Sister Ross-King's diaries covering her wartime ...

Middle-aged, bespectacled, and a veteran of an earlier war, Anderson did not look like a Hollywood-style war hero. He had been born in South Africa and was awarded the Military Cross in the First ...

After this, Susan disappears from the margins of the historical record, a far cry from his prior position at the centre of Australian identity: Gallipoli veteran, prisoner of war of the Germans, and ...

Today marks the anniversary of the Fall of Singapore, one of the worst military disasters to befall Australia, and one of the greatest defeats in British history. Since 1923 Singapore had been ...

This blog covers the basic aspects and some variants of helmets worn by the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the First World War and the Second AIF during the Second World War. Between 1916 and ...

It has become known as Australia’s blackest night. On 19 July 1916, the troops of the 5th Australian and 61st British Divisions attacked a strong German position, at the centre of which stood the ...

The Honourable Kim Beazley AC has been appointed as Chair of the Australian War Memorial Council. Mr Beazley, a former Labor Leader, Defence Minister and Governor of Western Australia first served as ...

The Australian War Memorial’s $550 million development project will begin rising out of the ground, following the contract signing with the last of three main construction partners this week.

Nancy Wake, a prominent figure in the French Resistance during the Second World War, was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 30 August 1912. Her family moved to Sydney, where she grew up, when Nancy ...

New research from the Australian War Memorial has identified more than 250 Indigenous men and women who served for Australia during the Vietnam War. Researchers say it is important to recognise their ...