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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. 

 

Deploying to the MEAO - Day 2

Deploying to the MEAO - Day 2

12 March 2014

Read about the experiences of an Australian War Memorial photogrpaher Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO) working on an oral history-photographic project

Deploying to the MEAO - Day 1

Deploying to the MEAO - Day 1

11 March 2014

Read about the experiences of an Australian War Memorial photogrpaher Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO) working on an oral history-photographic project

Australia's link to Colditz

Australia's link to Colditz

17 February 2014

Read about the escape from Colditz Castle on the 8th September 1942

A different kind of heroism

A different kind of heroism

07 February 2014

Read about the day by day experiences of soldiers in WWI 

Film Collection Online: Flying with a Dambuster

Film Collection Online: Flying with a Dambuster

07 February 2014

Explore the Australian War Memorials collection of oral history interviews, footage of Lancaster bombers before and during missions as well as the servicemen who maintained and flew in them made in WWII

Memorial Box Banter - Part III

Memorial Box Banter - Part III

07 February 2014

Read more about the work the Australian War Memorial puts into the memorial boxes able to be borrowed by schools to give children a pratical hands on experience of history

An Australian soldier among the scattered battlefield graves at Pozieres. Some 23,000 Australians became casualties in this fighting, of which 7,000 died

‘Good fearless soldiers’: two brothers at Pozières, 1916

04 February 2014

Read about the accounts of WWI from the letters sent to Reverend John Garrard Raws by his two sons 

ANZAC Connections: First World War Centenary digitisation project

ANZAC Connections: First World War Centenary digitisation project

20 January 2014

Read about the Australian War Memorials project to create a comprehensive digital archive of the ANZACs and their deeds, and how members of the public can assist

Film Collection Online: With the Royal Australian Navy in Vietnam

Film Collection Online: With the Royal Australian Navy in Vietnam

16 January 2014

Explore the film and sound collection of the Australian War memorials showreel of the RAN during the conflict in Vietnam highlighting different aspects of the RAN’s activities from 1965 until 1972

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Last updated: 22 December 2021

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