When Nicholas Dawson is working at his forge, nothing else matters.

June 6 marks the 50th anniversary of the battle of Binh Ba, one of Australia’s most significant engagements in the Vietnam War.

When Natalie Duncan was serving in Afghanistan, she was moved by the rugs women created in response to the conflict.

When James Farquharson was a child growing up in Canberra, he would spend hours admiring Will Longstaff’s painting, Menin Gate at midnight, at the Australian War Memorial.

James Bennett was angry: he had fought alongside Aboriginal men on Gallipoli and the Western Front and was horrified at their treatment back home after the war.

Decades before Allied prisoners dreamed up plans to escape the Nazis at Stalag Luft III, 29 officers tunnelled their way out of a German prisoner of war camp during the First World War.

Athol Adams was shot four times in the first ten days of the Gallipoli campaign.

The Australian War Memorial is proud to announce Alexia Moncrieff as the winner of the 2018 Bryan Gandevia Prize.

Anne Coutts will always remember the last time she saw her father, Sergeant William McDougall, who was killed when the hospital ship Centaur was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese.