Isador Goodman’s New Guinea Fantasy is more than a piece of music, but a tribute to sacrifice, solidarity and the power of ...

“We have brought a national icon back home and next year people will get to see G for George as you have never seen her before in new Anzac Hall,” Matt Anderson, Director of the Australian War ...

The temporary photographic exhibition, Victory in the Pacific!, is a series of photographs that capture the joy and celebration, coupled with the sombre commemoration which seized Australians, as the ...

On Thursday 31 July, the iconic fuselage of the Lancaster bomber G for George will make its historic return to the Memorial, ahead of its installation as the centrepiece of the new Australians in ...

The Third Battle of Ypres was the major British offensive in Flanders in 1917. It was planned to break through the strongly fortified and in-depth German defences enclosing the Ypres salient, a ...

LAE, NEW GUINEA. 1945-10-14. A TRUCK AT 2/11 MOBILE LAUNDRY, FIRST ARMY, TRAPPED BY FLOOD WATERS. FOLLOWING HEAVY RAINS THE BUTIBUM RIVER OVERFLOWED ITS BANKS, FLOODED THE ROAD AND ADJOINING UNITS, ...

Every year, as Anzac Day approaches, people become curious about Anzac biscuits. Maybe it's because the thought of them is a delectable relief to the sombreness of that day and all that it ...

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 ...

A crowd of more than 32,000 people gathered in the dark this morning at the Australian War Memorial for the Anzac Day Dawn Service, commemorating the 109th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing. The ...

Not yet diagnosed: Australian psychiatric casualties during the Kokoda campaign, 1942 David Woolley “Outstanding … painstakingly researched study … remarkable in quality.” Professor Jay Winter, ...

This is the third in a series of blogs about First World War uniforms and covers the basic aspects of the Australian Imperial Force headwear during the First World War. The most distinctive and ...

The standard bayonet for the SMLE No 1 MK III and the SMLE No 1 Mk III* rifle was the Pattern 1907 Bayonet. Every SMLE rifle produced had a bayonet with a matching serial number issued with it.