The most highly decorated soldier in the Australian army. Dashing, brave and handsome, Murray rose from the ranks to command a battalion. He described his occupation as a “bushman” when he joined the ...
Thousands of English war brides came to Australia after the First World War, but one would become notorious as a leading Sydney criminal. Matilda Twiss married Sapper James Devine, a former Queensland ...
Sister Mona Margaret Wilton was one of twelve Australian Army nurses who died at sea after the bombing of the SS Vyner Brooke ...
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 ...
Vivian Bullwinkel was born in Kapunda, South Australia, and trained as a nurse in Broken Hill, New South Wales. In 1941, aged 25, she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service. She was posted to ...
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 ...
Jan O’Herne was born in 1923 at Bandoeng, in central Java. After the Japanese invasion of the NEI, she, her mother, and her two sisters were interned, along with thousands of other Dutch women and ...
On Tuesday 11 November 2025 the Australian War Memorial commemorated Remembrance Day with the National Ceremony. A recording of the ceremony is now available to watch. Watch the recording on ABC iView ...
The Nek was a vitally important position on the northern end of the ANZAC front line and the scene of a tragic attack by the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at dawn on 7 August 1915. It was a narrow bridge of ...
GROUP PORTRAIT OF NO. 4 INITIAL TRAINING SCHOOL, RAAF, COURSE NO. 25, "A" SQUADRON, FLIGHT 17. BACK ROW: 417275 DOUGLAS GEORGE BARRETT (DIED 27 JANUARY 1944 ON OPERATIONS OVER NORTH WEST EUROPE, ...
Messerschmitt Me 262A-2, cantilever low wing monoplane with twin axial flow jet engines. All metal, stressed skin construction. Retractable tricycle undercarriage, single spar, one piece wing attached ...
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