16 February 1942
Survivors of the sinking of the SS Vyner Brooke were massacred on Banka Island. Sister Vivian Bullwinkel survived.
What's New At the Memorial
Featured
-
Before and after: stories from the paper lab
The Australian War Memorial has a huge collection of items on paper encompassing Australia’s wartime experience from the Boer War to the present day.
-
The letters of Captain Charles Edwin Gatliff
Charles Gatliff was one of five brothers who served in artillery brigades on the battlefields of the First World War.
-
'He was a true fighting commander'
Jill Miles grew up hearing stories about her great uncle, Leslie Maygar, and would take his Victoria Cross to school.
