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21 October 2020
On 22 October 1950, the men of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) fought their first battle in Korea in an apple orchard north of Pyongyang.
18 October 2020
On 20 October 1992 two Australian officers landed in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia and a city wracked by civil war.
07 October 2020
Ethiopia is an often overlooked theatre of the Second World War. Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia from Eritrea and Italian Somalia in October 1935. In May 1936, Italy proclaimed the annexation of Ethiopia and Victor Emmanuel III was proclaimed emperor.
26 September 2020
David Nicolson has an image of a Bushmaster tattooed on his arm, a permanent reminder of his experiences in Afghanistan.
25 September 2020
When Christine Hall’s husband Stephen returned from Afghanistan in 2012, she felt compelled to capture the moment forever.
25 September 2020
Matt Jones never dreamt that he would one day win a national art prize for veterans, but that’s exactly what happened.
23 September 2020
Due to Covid-19 our Objects curators had the opportunity to spend more time at our storage facility. On a pallet at the Memorial’s Treloar Technology Centre is a very rare German First World War stretcher.
21 September 2020
On 21 September 1953, 21 year old pilot, Lieutenant No Kum Sok threw a photograph of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung to the ground and put his hands up. He is thought to be the first North Korean military defector after the end of the war.
16 September 2020
Today - 16 September - is #AskACurator Day. We asked you to join in and ask us some questions. Today we have the answers.
