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27 May 2020
The Australian War Memorial has begun implementing its new Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
27 May 2020
The Australian War Memorial is looking for help to identify an Indigenous soldier whose photograph was found in South Australia.
27 May 2020
Timothy Hughes was awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous gallantry and bravery during the bitter fighting at Buna.
22 May 2020
Walter Callaghan was one of three brothers killed on the Western Front during the First World War. His mother Mary was invited to unveil the Lithgow Soldier’s Memorial in recognition of the loss of her three sons, but nothing could ease her pain.
22 May 2020
When the Germans invaded Greece in April 1941, Bruce Brock and his mates were left isolated and cut off. But with initiative, courage, the goodwill of local Greeks and Turks, and a little bit of luck, they escaped the advancing German forces, making an epic 37-day journey through rugged mountainous terrain and swampland to rejoin their unit in Palestine.
21 May 2020
As the First World War was drawing to a close, and the monumental task of repatriating countless tired and homesick soldiers began, the world faced a pandemic that would be more deadly than “the war to end all wars”.
12 May 2020
Recently, we were cataloguing collection 2DRL/0144, “Extracts from the letters of Private Robert Mactier VC”. In reading Private Mactier's letters, we found mention that his unit had been held in quarantine for the mumps. This obviously resonated with us in the current circumstances!
11 May 2020
By the time Henryka Shaw was liberated in May 1945, she had survived five concentration camps – Krakau-Plaszow, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Venusberg, and finally Mauthausen.
08 May 2020
Chrisoula Borda was 16 years old when war came to Crete in 1941. A courageous young woman she immediately tried to help, bringing food and supplies to prisoners of war. First she helped the wounded Italians and then, following German occupation of Crete, British and Australian prisoners. She helped free a prisoner of war, ‘Freddy’, only to be betrayed by her oldest friend to the Germans. A remarkable story of courage and faith.
