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James Burrows: The Last Coastwatcher
Australian Coastwatchers played a vital role providing intelligence on Japanese movements and rescuing stranded Allied personnel in the waters north of New Guinea.
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'It's important to ... ensure he's not forgotten'
Stafford Kenny James "Len" Lenoy served in New Guinea during the Second World War, and then with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) in Japan, but was killed in Korea in April 1951 during the battle of Kapyong.
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Lucky Charms
Read about Aircraft Mechanic 2nd Class Henry James Marston and his lucky charms.
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Relics of the 16th Battalion at the Bloody Angle, Gallipoli, 1919
In January 1919 tattered pieces of uniform were found lying among the bones of the men of the 16th Battalion, who were killed trying to advance at the Bloody Angle on 2 May 1915. These items were recovered by Lieutenant William Hopkin James, who headed a small party to Gallipoli for the Australian War Records Section (the precursor to the Australian War Memorial).
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Fourteen.
Learn more about Private James Charles Martin, possibly Australia's youngest casualty of WWI, aged 14.
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Claustrophobia in the Desert
As one of our Soldier in Resident program participants, James Fowler, a veteran of Afghanistan who is now based in Townsville, spent some time with The Memorial's collection of Afghanistan photographs. The following images resonated with James when recalling his own time in Afghanistan.
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Brothers in Arms and Aboriginal ANZAC Families
The Australian War Memorial has recently added two names to the list of First World War servicemen: James Smale and Walter Edward Smale.
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Vale Brigadier Jeffrey James "JJ" Shelton DSO MC
Vale Brigadier Jeffrey James "JJ" Shelton DSO MC
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'It just means the world to me'
When James Farquharson was a child growing up in Canberra, he would spend hours admiring Will Longstaff's painting, Menin Gate at midnight, at the Australian War Memorial.
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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. He fought on Gallipoli and the Western Front during the First World War and is one of the "Lost Diggers of Vignacourt".
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Seeking the "Black Rats of Tobruk"
Maxwell James Trengove was born on 9 December 1911 at Kadina, South Australia, to parents William Nathaniel Trengove and Matilda Alice Trengove (nee Axford).
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Vale Major General "Digger" James
On behalf of the Chairman, Council and all members of the Australian War Memorial staff, the Director Dr Brendan Nelson expresses his deepest condolences for the passing of former Chairman of the Memorial, Major-General William Brian 'Digger' James AC AO(Mil) MBE MC.
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Andrew and James Yeates
51 year-old Andrew Yeates enlisted after lying about his age, followed by his 21 year-old son James. Only one would make it home.
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'I didn't think it would be like this'
James Cronk can tell you the exact moment he landed on Tarakan during the Second World War.
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Remembering the Fisher brothers
James Fisher was one of eight brothers who enlisted during the First World War. He was wounded on Gallipoli and survived, only to succumb to illness on the day the Treaty of Versailles was signed, officially ending the war.
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The Carnage of the Somme
Like most Australian soldiers who fought in the First World War, Private James Makin did not fight on Gallipoli. The 22-year-old bank clerk from Middle Park in Melbourne had enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in July 1915 and left Australia with a reinforcement group for the 21st Battalion two months after the last troops were evacuated from Anzac. Makin's war began in Egypt, where for months he tramped on pack marches and rehearsed mock attacks in the hot desert sands before sailing for France.
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