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Memorial Articles

The Memorial boasts a staff of subject specialists in all aspects of military history and museum practice.

Our articles and our Encyclopedia allow subject specialists to share their knowledge on Australian military history.
They also provide a way for us to take a closer look at the people and the stories behind the history and our museum collection. 

 

Lance Sergeant Ronald Chambers

Mutiny in Stalag XIII-C

19 September 2023

Lance Sergeant Ronald Chambers sent 85 letters and postcards to his parents and siblings between 1941 and 1945, while a prisoner of war. 

Percival Pascoe

'I saw the look of shock in their eyes'

13 September 2023

Baden Pascoe was with his parents when the news came. His older brother Percival had been serving as a stoker aboard the light cruiser HMAS Sydney when it was sunk by the German raider Kormoran in November 1941.

A smoke grenade goes off as armed members of the Bougainville Resistance Force (BRF) patrol with soldiers from the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) in the Nagovis district, southwest Bougainville, during the civil war

Peace by Peaceful Means: Unarmed Australian Personnel on Bougainville 1997-2003

11 September 2023

For more than five consecutive years almost 2,500 unarmed Australian military and civilian monitors worked closely with the Bougainvillean people, at times in isolated and remote parts of Buka and Bougainville Islands, to support peacebuilding in a region that had been exposed to almost a decade of violence.

Seeking copyright holders

Seeking copyright holders

05 September 2023

The Memorial is seeking permission from the copyright holders to publish the collections listed below on the Memorial’s website.

Red Cross Staff

Mission of care in the Vietnam War: 2 Field Ambulance, 1966–1967

30 August 2023

The Australian Field Ambulance has played a vital role during times of conflict, assessing injuries, providing initial medical care, and removing the wounded from combat zones. 

Allan

Interlude with a Hand Grenade

14 August 2023

In 2016, Research Officer Amy Pym came across a fragile-looking book. On the front was the title “NX172702; Pte Allan ‘Bluey’ Bartlett; 2/17 Inf. Btn; Personal Experiences 1945”. It was her late grandfather's war diary...

Lieutenant George Mackisack in Malaya, 1941 (AWM2022.250.3)

With a Trembling Hand and a Thankful Heart

03 August 2023

At the beginning of 1942, George Mackisack’s family received word that he was in a convalescent hospital in Singapore, recovering from wounds received in an air attack. This was the last news they would receive for almost a year.

Camera

The restoration of the Buckland Camera

02 August 2023

While considering objects for inclusion in Action! War and Film, one item I definitely had to have was an electrified Bell and Howell 35mm Eyemo cine camera. 

Andrew

The story behind Andrew Fox-Lane's helmet camera

02 August 2023

When Andrew Fox-Lane donated his helmet camera to the Australian War Memorial in 2013, the helmet and mounting systems did not come with it.

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