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.
'We all owe them'
It was 25 March 1945, and 24-year-old Jack Tredrea was preparing to parachute ‘blind’ into Japanese-occupied Borneo, armed with only a few maps, some guns and grenades, and a cyanide pill to swallow in case he was captured.
'There isn't a day goes by that we don't think of Cameron'
It was 22 June 2013, and Corporal Cameron Baird was leading from the front, just as he always did.
'Captain, nothing you can say will remove the conviction that I will be killed'
Albert Davey had a feeling he was about to die. A 32-year-old miner from Ballarat, Victoria, he had left his wife and child to serve with the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company on the Western Front. He was one of the last Australians killed-in-action during the First World War,
'She's everything I needed her to be'
Anneke Jamieson always loved to draw. But it is one of Jamieson’s paintings, The promotion, that has captured the public imagination, winning both the Napier Waller Art Prize and the People's Choice award.
'I'd never heard anything so loud in my life'
Gordon Traill can still hear the explosion. He was in Iraq when a car bomb exploded outside the building he was working in.
'I'd always wanted to serve'
Glen Braithwaite was sitting in a gun pit in East Timor when he heard what he thought was gunfire.
Kicking myself for not making a break
The diary of Private Bernard Henry McCabe details his experiences as a prisoner of war at Changi camps between February 1942 and September 1945.
'It was a chance to say goodbye'
Every year, a small, remote village on the other side of the world pauses in honour of an Australian Army officer, Captain Paul McKay.