Memorial Articles

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

The ANZAC voices exhibition features a number of rare documents displayed for the first time, such as some of Frederick Tubb’s diaries and John Simpson Kirkpatrick’s letters. It is also the first time the Memorial has displayed relics recovered from the Pheasant Wood mass grave at Fromelles.

Read some of the stories of the evacuation from Gallipoli found in the diaries and letters within the Australian War memorials collection

Read about Private Simpson, and the letters and diaries he wrote

Read about how Australians experienced many aspects of the First World War, from food and health to political issues such as conscription.

In December 2012, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) announced that for the very first time, ADF members would be allowed to march in uniform at Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade in 2013. This momentous announcement coincided with the ADF’s 20^th anniversary of the removal of the ban on homosexuals serving in the armed forces. The march would also fall on the 35^th anniversary of the parade, making the inaugural uniformed march all the more historic.

It is the spring of 1918 and the great German offensive, Operation Michael, is driving westward.  The morning of 5 April is misty with poor visibilty.  At 6:55am, the men of the 12^th and 13^th Brigades of the 4^th Division are in their forward positions along the railway embankment as the German artillery barrage starts to fall. 

Enjoy a lighthearted Christmas video drawing on material from across various conflicts from both home and abroad and items in both our film and sound collections

Read about The Grantala, the Navy’s first and only hospital ship of WW1