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 ...

In most ceremonies of remembrance there is a reading of an appropriate poem. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. In ...

This ceremony is held after the Anzac Day Dawn Service at “For Our Country” Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service Memorial. This commemorative ceremony is conducted to honour those Indigenous ...

The Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau provides insights into the efforts to trace missing soldiers during wartime.

Almost a million Australians, both men and women, served in the Second World War. This war affected Australians more directly than the First World War, and caused immense social change. More than ...

Over 400,000 people enlisted to serve for Australia in the First World War. While some volunteers were rejected because of their age, height, or size, the Defence Act stated that people “not ...

Twenty-two years old, English-born and a trade union activist, John Simpson Kirkpatrick was an unlikely figure to become a national hero. Having deserted from the merchant navy in 1910, he tramped ...

Members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), just north of the village of Lang Phuoc Hai, beside Route 44 leading to Dat Do. United States Army Iroquois ...