Lachlan Grant

Dr Lachlan Grant is a Senior Historian in the Military History Section and Concept Developer in the Galley Development Team co-curating the Second World War and First World War displays in Anzac Hall.

Lachlan joined the Australian War Memorial in 2011 from Monash University, where he completed his PhD (2010) and MA (2005). He has published widely on Australian experiences in the Second World War, specialising in the prisoner-of-war experience and Australia’s war in Europe. Lachlan has worked on several exhibitions, including as lead historian and co-curator on both the Memorial’s Holocaust, and the Battle of Milne Bay displays. Since 2015 Lachlan has been the Memorial’s battlefield guide for the Simpson Prize, leading tours to Gallipoli and the Western Front and is a member of the editorial staff for the Memorial’s Wartime magazine.

Lachlan is the author of Australian soldiers in Asia and the Pacific in World War II (2014) and the editor (with Michael Bell) of For Country, For Nation: An Illustrated History of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service (2018); The Changi book (2015); and co-editor with Joan Beaumont and Aaron Pegram, Beyond surrender: Australian prisoners of war in the twentieth century (2015). In his spare time, Lachlan is working on books on the Australians in Bomber Command, as well as the on the Australians who took part in D-Day and the battle of Normandy.

• Click here for full list of Lachlan’s publications (including book chapters and articles).