Private William Jacob “Jack” Watriama was born around 1880 in Tuo village on Maré Island, the second largest of the Loyalty ...

Papua New Guinea’s 50th anniversary of independence from Australia on 16 September 2025 provides an opportunity to reflect on ...

The battle of Polygon Wood was the I ANZAC component of a larger British and dominion operation staged as part of the third battle of Ypres. This operation was the second of the "Plumer battles", a ...

There were two separate commissioning schemes for artists during the First World War. Ten Australian artists living in England received appointments for generally not more than three months and were ...

The Battle of Menin Road was an offensive operation, part of the Third Battle of Ypres on the Western Front, undertaken by the British Second Army in an attempt to take sections of the curving ridge, ...

Compulsory military training for young Australians was reintroduced in 1951 by the Liberal and Country Party alliance Government. It was the third such scheme to have existed in Australia since ...

The First World War Mothers’ and Widows’ Badge was issued to the mothers and/or widows of members of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) or the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force who ...

“[R]eading against the grain, looking for the silences or omissions in the official records and listening to the voices in the film archive … Woolley unearths the SIWs and the NYDs, the impact of ...

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 ...

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 ...

On 19 July 1940 HMAS Sydney II achieved victory over the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni in the Mediterranean Sea during the battle of Cape Spada. The Bartolomeo Colleoni was an Italian ...

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.