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 ...

Darwin, the largest population centre in northern Australia, was considered a vital asset in Australia's defences against an increasingly aggressive Japanese Empire in the 1930s. Its port and airfield ...

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 ...

General Peter Cosgrove retired from the army in 2005. Four years earlier, he had been Australian of the Year: “In every respect Peter Cosgrove demonstrated that he is a role model. The man at the top ...

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 ...

After the evacuation from the Gallipoli Peninsula at the end of 1915 the AIF returned to Egypt where it was reorganised into two corps, I and II Anzac. By mid-1916 both Corps had arrived on the ...

The Napier Waller Art Prize is open to all current and former service personnel in the Australian Defence Force. The prize encourages artistic excellence, promotes the transformative power of ...

Each evening between sunset and sunrise names from the Australian War Memorial’s Roll of Honour are projected onto the façade of the Hall of Memory (the dome). The projections are a tribute to those ...

Anzac Day is our national day of commemoration. On Friday 25 April 2025, the Australian War Memorial marked the 110th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings and commemorated all Australians who have ...

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

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 ...

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