25 March 1945
Lieutenant A. Chowne is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross at Dagua, New Guinea.
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'They were so brave'
Val Lehman starred as “Queen” Bea Smith in the Australian television show Prisoner, but to the award-winning actress, her grandfather, James Holland, was a star.
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Volume IV of the peacekeeping official history series launched
The fourth volume in the Official History of Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations, The limits of peacekeeping, was officially launched today at the Australian War Memori
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Napier Waller Art Prize for veteran artists opens from 29 April 2019
The Australian War Memorial, the University of Canberra, The Road Home, Thales Australia and the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, the Hon.
