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.
Hospital Ship Centaur
The Memorial holds a small, but important, collection associated with the sinking of the Hospital Ship Centaur, whose wreck site was discovered in 2009.
Recent acquisition: new Private Records relating to ‘G for George’
The Australian War Memorial has recently received important documents relating to the Nuremberg bombing raid of 30-31 March 1944 and the iconic Lancaster bomber ‘G for George’.
Tuesday 2nd February 1915
Herbert embarked on the HMAT A35 Berrima at 12pm on the 22nd of December 1914.
Radio propaganda and the kindness of strangers
In 1944, Yvonne Jobling was a schoolgirl studying shorthand. Every evening at her home in Geelong, Victoria, she practiced her shorthand by listening to the radio. On Friday, 17 March 1944, she happened to be listening to the short-wave broadcast of Radio Tokyo, and heard messages from Australian prisoners of war.
Recent acquisitions: nominal roll of 2/8th Battalion
Official Records is pleased to announce the acquisition of original nominal roll cards of the 2/8th Australian Infantry Battalion into the National Collection.
First World War unit war diaries - digitising the final page
There was movement in the Research Centre yesterday afternoon as news spread about a momentous event in the history of the AWM4 First World War unit war diaries digitisation project. For those who have been involved in this project, space was not an issue as we crammed into the digitisation room to witness the scanning of the final page at 2pm on 5 January 2010.
Conservation Cleaning of a Wedding Dress
Read about the conservation techniques used in the cleaning of a silk wedding dress
"Dorothy" the Kitbag
Read about the cleaning and conservation of "Dorothy" the kitbag in preparation for being exhibited