Memorial Articles

The Australian Army set up 1 Australian Logistics Support Group at Vung Tau to provide support for the inland combat-area base at Nui Dat in Vietnam.

Broadcaster, journalist, oral historian and author Tim Bowden – who died on Sunday aged 87 – had a long and storied relationship with the Australian War Memorial.

In early 1994 Rwanda had been the site of one of the most concentrated genocides of the twentieth century and there was little that Australians could do to prepare themselves.

Exciting changes are afoot in the Memorial galleries with the installation of nearly fifty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, previously in storage.

The painted triptych shares the history of the Gija people’s experience of conflict in the East Kimberly region over the past hundred years.

Sybil Craig was the third woman to be appointed as an official war artist during the Second World War, following the appointments of artists Stella Bowen and Nora Heysen. 

“Sharp drop”, “Slippery track”, “Rough going” are some of the understated descriptions on a map of the Kokoda Trail.

2nd Lieutenant Alfred John Hearps holds the distinction of being the only known Indigenous Australian commissioned officer to die during the First World War.

Current Memorial research estimates that approximately 1,200 Indigenous Australian men attempted to enlist in the First World War.