Memorial Articles

Learn about the repair and conservation of sketches by George Lambert prior to display.

The political background to the entry into Damascus is complex and murky. Yet, only by identifying the underlying web of forces involved, can sense be made of what happened as control of the city passed from the Turks to the Allies.

Exactly 90 years ago, with the capture of Rafa on 9 January 1917, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force arrived in Palestine.

Read about the fall of Jerusalem to the British and Australians just before Christmas 1917, and their experience. 

The David Lean film Lawrence of Arabia is one of the more famous examples of art contributing to the Lawrence legend. Lesser known is the Australian feature film Forty Thousand Horsemen which can also be considered as significant for its role in legend making, however, for the Australian Light Horse.

Learn about the papers of General Sir Henry George Chauvel and the scrapbooks made by his Wife, Lady Chauvel documenting his military engagements during the war and offering an insight into his actions and thoughts. 

Thomas Wingate's (1807-69) photograph of the 1st Regiment of the NSW Rifle Volunteers standing in order is among the earliest Australian photographs to document the military activities of colonial citizens.

On 6 August 1945, when the atomic bomb was unleashed above the city of Hiroshima, the world changed forever. Photographs of the devastation brought home in raw detail the shocking power of this ultimate weapon.

Learn about the history of a rare book in the Australian War Memorials collection