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	<title>Australian War Memorial &#187; Personal Stories</title>
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		<title>A different day at work</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/11/13/a-different-day-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Britt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Of love and war]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Preparations for the Memorial’s new travelling exhibition Of love and war are nearly complete. The showcases are being built, all the labels and captions are being printed and we’ve been in the recording studio as well.
A large part of the Memorial’s collection relating to love during wartime comes from private records, particularly the letters that [...]]]></description>
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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>The butcher and the grocer: A Western Front story.</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/08/28/the-butcher-and-the-grocer-a-western-front-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Blanch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Field Butchery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First World War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passchendaele (Ypres)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Light Horse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Western Front was epitomised by the brute force of men against machine and each other. Tens of thousands were lost in the maelstrom of war. In the horror, friendships were forged that endured even through death. This is the story of one such friendship&#8230;
Wally Brown was a grocer. He did not necessarily want to be a [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Escape Maps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HMAS Sydney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HSK Kormoran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theodore Detmers]]></category>

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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>The Liberation of Colditz Castle</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/07/17/the-liberation-of-colditz-castle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Di Rutherford</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prisoner of War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shrapnel from an American ranging shell, Colditz Castle 1945. REL38251
This 8 cm piece of shrapnel is a souvenir from the liberation of the infamous prisoner of war camp, Oflag IVC - Colditz Castle. It was collected by an Australian soldier, Lieutenant Jack Millett. Millett was an &#8216;incorrigible&#8217;, one of the prisoners held by the Germans [...]]]></description>
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