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.
'I'd always wanted to serve'
Glen Braithwaite was sitting in a gun pit in East Timor when he heard what he thought was gunfire.
Kicking myself for not making a break
The diary of Private Bernard Henry McCabe details his experiences as a prisoner of war at Changi camps between February 1942 and September 1945.
The last of his line
Edward 'Ted' Eames was desperately ill in hospital when the Armistice was signed on 11 November 1918.
Remembering Lyle Chase
Lyle Chase died the day the First World War ended. He had enlisted with his younger brother, William, and was serving in the 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment in the Middle East when he became dangerously ill during the last days of the war.
Brothers in arms
Gordon Andrews and Ted Davidson were the best of friends. The two grew up together on the Murray River in South Australia and did everything together. They enlisted together, were married together, and served at Tobruk together. The two would be together right until the end.
The unseen enemy
Richard Moxham never got to meet his baby daughter. He died on the final day of the First World War after being struck down by a mysterious new form of influenza.
'It was a chance to say goodbye'
Every year, a small, remote village on the other side of the world pauses in honour of an Australian Army officer, Captain Paul McKay.
'There was no colour bar, no animosity between us … We were all brothers'
Graham Taylor was 19 years old when his platoon came under attack in Vietnam.