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.
Memorial Box Banter - Part III
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
‘Good fearless soldiers’: two brothers at Pozières, 1916
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
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
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
ANZAC voices - relics from Pheasant Wood
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.
On this day...20 December 1915
Read some of the stories of the evacuation from Gallipoli found in the diaries and letters within the Australian War memorials collection
Christmas in Cairo 1914 - Private John Simpson, 3rd Field Ambulance
Read about Private Simpson, and the letters and diaries he wrote
Anzac Voices - the conscription referendum 1916
Read about how Australians experienced many aspects of the First World War, from food and health to political issues such as conscription.
A New Tradition: The ADF in Mardi Gras 2013
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 20th anniversary of the removal of the ban on homosexuals serving in the armed forces. The march would also fall on the 35th anniversary of the parade, making the inaugural uniformed march all the more historic.