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.
Tobruk diaries: The siege comes to an end
The last battalion to be evacuated from Tobruk was Bryant's battalion, the 2/13thin December 1941. Read more.
In the collection: Conflict T-shirts
Read about T-shirts as souvenirs from the numerous Peace Keeping missions in which Australians have served.
Remembering 1942
El Alamein was one of the great battles of the Second World War, and is frequently described as a turning-point of that conflict.
Armistice documents, 1918
This is a series of digitised documents from the Memorial's Private Records collection focusing on Remembrance Day.
The Australian Army and farming in the Northern Territory
When we think of fertile faming lands, the Northern Territory is generally not the first place that springs to mind. Yet it was here, during the Second World War, that the Australian Army established the 1 and 2 Farm Company as part of the Australian Army Service Corps.
The Iconic Changi Quilts
When Singapore fell on 15 February 1942, 400 women and children were interned. The quilts were the idea of Mrs Ethel Mulvaney and the Memorial is interested in making contact with the relatives or contributors to the famous Changi quilts.
Curating from Afghanistan : Collecting in Action, February 2011
As senior curator of Film and Sound at the Memorial, I was greatly privileged in February this year to go with the ADF to the Australia’s area of Middle Eastern Operations.