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	<title>Australian War Memorial &#187; Collection Highlights</title>
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		<title>Proactive Collecting with HMAS Parramatta</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/11/04/proactive-collecting-with-hmas-parramatta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Orr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ HMAS Parramatta (author's collection)
The Australian War Memorial faces unique challenges presented by the modern age to its collection development for recent conflicts, including Iraq and Afghanistan. With email, phones and internet communicative tools largely replacing traditional keepsakes such as diaries and letters, this has made identifying and retaining objects of the ADF experience in modern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German Official and Regimental Histories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Memorial’s Research Centre holds over 900 First World War German Official and Regimental Histories in its Published Collection. These extensive holdings of rare German language histories are mainly due to the foresight and enthusiasm of Capt. J. J. Herbertson who was instrumental in the collection of these titles over the period 1922-1937.
A view of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Swinden collection</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/09/29/the-swinden-collection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pen Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published and Digitised Collections holds a significant and growing collection of printed and digital memorabilia from recent conflicts and peace keeping deployments.
Commander Greg Swinden (RAN) has donated a rich collection of artefacts from his deployment on Operations TANAGER (East Timor), TREK (Solomon Islands) and SLIPPER (Gulf 2). He has also generously written a narrative for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Not So Great Escape</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/08/12/the-not-so-great-escape/</link>
		<comments>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/08/12/the-not-so-great-escape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Orr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 19th November 1941, Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney II was lost, with all hands, off the coast of Western Australia after engaging with the German raider HSK Kormoran. The discovery in March 2008 of the final resting place of the Sydney and the Kormoran attracted much attention. Understandably, there has been much discussion over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preserving Gallipoli aerial photographs</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/07/20/preserving-our-gallipoli-aerial-photographs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Hunt</dc:creator>
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The Research Centre holds a fascinating and unusual collection of 68 aerial photographs of Gallipoli in 1915. The majority of the collection consists of 48 numbered aerial photographs taken over Anzac and South Suvla by the British Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in October and November 1915 at [...]]]></description>
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