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.
Discovering Defence Public Relations Films
Learn about a recent addition to the Australian War Memorials film collection available online is a number of documentaries made by/or on behalf of Defence Public Relations during the 1970s and 1980s.
Changi Concert Party Programs: Digitisation Project
Learn about the Australian War Memorials project to make available online its collection of Changi Concert Party programs.
Anzac Connections: 50 000 pages and counting!
Learn about the progress of the Australian War Memorial’s centenary digitisation project, Anzac Connections.
Perspex trench art sweetheart jewellery
Learn more about the cottage industries of the Second World War making jewellery and keepsakes sold to the service personal
70th anniversary of the sinking of the Rakuyō Maru
Read more about the sinking of two Japanese ships transporting Australian and British prisoners of war from Singapore to Japan on the 12th September 1944
Tek art
During the Second World War a type of trench art known as “Tek art” began to be produced by servicemen, civilians, and prisoners of war. It involved the incorporation of colourful plastics into trench art designs.
The war that shaped Australia
Learn more about how the first World War shaped national identity in Australia
Why it is not incorrect to speak of winning a Victoria Cross
Read more about the social implications of the wording used when recognising the sacrifice and bravery of those awarded the VC