Remembrance Day at the Australian War Memorial in 1993 was a particularly significant occasion; that year an unknown Australian soldier was entombed in the Memorial grounds.

It was a day that would change Clarence Atkinson’s life forever – the 27th of June 1941.

In 2019, The Australian War Memorial commissioned Tasmanian Aboriginal photographer Ricky Maynard to create a series of photographs on the Furneaux Islands in the Bass Strait.

The fighting which took place around the French village of Pozieres in 1916 was among the most devastating action seen by Australian troops during the First World War. It was here over 104 years ago that 23-year-old Private John ‘Jack’ Adams was killed in action on the 25th of July 1916.

One minute Leo Inglis was keeping an eye on Japanese planes flying overhead, the next he was buried alive, fighting for his life.

If there’s a war memorial near you, then Henry Moulds wants to know about it.

When Barney Cain heard Japanese bombers flying over Rabaul, he thought he was going to die. He spent the next three and a half months evading the Japanese in the jungles and mountains of New Britain.

This article highlights new information that has come to light about the Menin Gate Lions.

The Memorial’s visitor services manager and retired Leading Seaman, Gerard Pratt, served on-board HMAS Brisbane (II) as a radio operator, joining the crew after its return from the First Gulf War.