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.
Thirty years ago today hostilities between Iraqi and Coalition forces ended, bringing the Gulf War to a close. The Memorial has digitised its collection of ephemera from this period as part of the Memorial’s Digitisation Project 2018–2022.
In the midst of the Second World War, architect John Crust climbed Mount Ainslie to paint a watercolour of the newly-built Australian War Memorial. It was not long before the official handover of the building that he had dedicated years of his life to; a building which would become one of the most iconic buildings in the country.