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	<title>Australian War Memorial &#187; Personal Stories</title>
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		<title>Mike Coleridge, Australian Vietnam War photographer, 1933-2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Affleck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael (Mike) Coleridge will always be remembered for the photograph he took on 26 August 1967 of a group of soldiers of 5 Platoon, B Company, 7RAR, waiting for an Iroquois helicopter to land and take them back to Nui Dat at the end of Operation Ulmarra. This photograph has become an Australian icon of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curating from Afghanistan : Collecting in Action, February 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Boyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As senior curator of Film and Sound at the Memorial, I was greatly privileged in February this year to go with the ADF to the Australia’s area of Middle Eastern Operations.   Not only did I meet with and interview an amazing range of ADF members based in or around Al Minhad, Kandahar, Tarin Kot and Kabul, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember remembering : Oral Histories of the First World War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Boyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we got wind in the morning that the Armistice was either signed or about to be signed&#8230; And the word finally came through and of course there was great excitement&#8230; I was only sorry I hadn&#8217;t arrived there Armistice night because the chaps that got off the train, the girls just formed a ring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A family&#8217;s love &#8211; Allan Henderson Hislop</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Rebbeck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian War Memorial&#8217;s Heraldry collection contains a number of commemorative badges and brooches which display a high level of beauty and craftsmanship combined with poignant individual stories. A recently donated brooch demonstrates these characteristics excellently. REL44358 Commemorative brooch for Allan Henderson Hislop This fifteen carat gold brooch was one of four privately made for the Hislop family in memory of their son and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medals of a Rat</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2011/08/31/medals-of-a-rat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visitors to the Memorial’s exhibition Rats of Tobruk 1941 will have noticed the unofficial Rats of Tobruk medal presented, according to its engraving, by Lord Haw Haw. Around twenty of these medals were made at Tobruk, which illustrates one of the earliest examples of the town’s defenders reclaiming the title ‘Rat’, bestowed on them by [...]]]></description>
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