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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. 

 

letter from the first world war

Remembering the end of the First World War

08 November 2022

There are a multitude of stories recorded in the letters and diaries held at the Memorial that reflect on the signing of the Armistice and the war coming to an end.

Bill Newton VC

Bill Newton VC: In honour of the Firebug

28 October 2022

When Bill Newton said goodbye to his mother, he told her not to worry, that if something happened to him, she was not to make a fuss. She never saw him again.

Slim

Songs of Survival

19 October 2022

Slim de Grey was left devastated when his best mate was taken from Changi to Sandakan during the Second World War. Shortly after he composed the song They’ve Taken My Old Pal Away. It put into words how many of the men at Changi felt about being separated from their mates.

Betty Jeffrey

'We are praying for freedom'

19 October 2022

When Sister Betty Jeffrey stood before her fellow prisoners of war in Sumatra and started to sing, she could almost forget where she was.

Ernest

'The day we lost you dad, was the saddest of them all'

12 October 2022

When Andy Harrison was a child growing up in Sydney, there was a painting of a ship hanging on the wall of his family home. It had been a part of his life for as long as he could remember, but it wasn’t until he was older that he understood its significance.

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Australians in Operation Iguana – Somalia

11 October 2022

On 20 October 1992 two Australian officers landed in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia and a city wracked by civil war.

Charles George Waugh

The Waughs at war

11 October 2022

Dayle Shafer was going through a box of her father’s things after he died when she found an old silver cigarette case and lighter. They were beautifully engraved with the initials C.G.W., but no one knew where they came from or who they belonged to.

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Gallery Development Update

28 September 2022

Since forming in October 2019 the Memorial’s Gallery Development team has managed an extensive engagement program focused on uncovering and collecting the contemporary stories of service and sacrifice that will be told in the Memorials new galleries.

Two unidentified staff working at a table in the registration room at the Base Post Office at camp on the Suez Canal.

The mail must get through!

26 September 2022

The Work of the Australian Army’s Base Post Office at Kantara in Egypt during the First World War.

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Your generous donation will be used to ensure the memory of our Defence Forces and what they have done for us, and what they continue to do for our freedom remains – today and into the future.

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Places of Pride

Places of Pride, the National Register of War Memorials, is a new initiative designed to record the locations and photographs of every publicly accessible memorial across Australia.

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