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.
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.
Remember remembering : Oral Histories of the First World War
The Memorial holds many stories of the Great War; these are the oral histories of survivors, veterans who recorded their stories of the war years leading up to Armistice, and in some cases beyond.
A family's love - Allan Henderson Hislop
Read about the fifteen carat gold brooch in the AWM collection, one of four privately made for the Hislop family in memory of their son and brother, Allan Henderson
The Trench Art of Sapper Pearl
Read about the fantastic collection of First World War trench art made by Sapper Stanley Pearl
Medals of a Rat
The medals of Major General J J Murray are impressive by anyone’s standards, and are the tangible result of a distinguished career which spanned thirty years and two wars.