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	<title>Australian War Memorial &#187; Collection Highlights</title>
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		<title>Victoria Cross records and ephemera</title>
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		<dc:creator>Craig Berelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Documents supporting the award of the Victoria Cross are now on display at the Reading Room of the Australian War Memorial. The display is arranged to show three themes associated with Australia&#8217;s highest award for gallantry. These include official records produced leading to the award of the Victoria Cross; the ceremony of the award, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the collection: Conflict T-shirts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Ducker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian War Memorial holds T-shirts from the numerous Peace Keeping missions in which Australians have served. A usually inexpensive and useful type of souvenir, the T-shirts are often humorous and visually creative. They are an example of how soldiers have adapted a civilian item of clothing to a deployment context. The Memorial is interested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Australian Army and farming in the Northern Territory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa Cronk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we think of fertile faming lands, the Northern Territory is generally not the first place that springs to mind. Yet it was here, during the Second World War, that the Australian Army established the 1 and 2 Farm Company as part of the Australian Army Service Corps. On 11 September 1940, approval was given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Iconic Changi Quilts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Ducker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Memorial is interested in making contact with the relatives or contributors to the famous Changi quilts.  If you can provide more information about the women who made these quilts please contact sue.ducker@awm.gov.au. REL/14235 - Embroidered quilt : Female internees, Changi Prison, &#34;Australian Quilt&#34; REL/14235 When Singapore fell on 15 February 1942, 400 women and children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art in the Records: the illustrations of Bernie Bragg</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Ducker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Memorial’s Research Centre holds original First World War AIF War Diaries [AWM4] that are now available to view on our website.  Hidden among the volumes of these records are some wonderful artworks created by the artist Bernie Bragg. Bernard [Bernie] William Patrick Bragg [Service number 2870] enlisted at 21 years of age on the [...]]]></description>
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