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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. 

 

John McKenzie

'You'd find a way ... Aussies always do'

20 January 2023

John McKenzie was used to making do during the Second World War. So when a pilot asked if he could service an aircraft overnight in New Guinea one evening, he didn’t hesitate.

hankerchief

The Handkerchief Project: Making Marks Australia and Afghanistan

21 December 2022

The Memorial has recently acquired 43 embroidered handkerchiefs exchanged between women in Australia and Afghanistan.

Jack Tredrea

'We all owe them'

11 December 2022

It was 25 March 1945, and 24-year-old Jack Tredrea was preparing to parachute ‘blind’ into Japanese-occupied Borneo, armed with only a few maps, some guns and grenades, and a cyanide pill to swallow in case he was captured. 

Cameron Baird VC MG

'There isn't a day goes by that we don't think of Cameron'

29 November 2022

It was 22 June 2013, and Corporal Cameron Baird was leading from the front, just as he always did. 

Tunnel

'Captain, nothing you can say will remove the conviction that I will be killed'

24 November 2022

Albert Davey had a feeling he was about to die. A 32-year-old miner from Ballarat, Victoria, he had left his wife and child to serve with the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company on the Western Front. He was one of the last Australians killed-in-action during the First World War,

Anneke

'She's everything I needed her to be'

23 November 2022

Anneke Jamieson always loved to draw. But it is one of Jamieson’s paintings, The promotion, that has captured the public imagination, winning both the Napier Waller Art Prize and the People's Choice award.

Glen

'I'd always wanted to serve'

18 November 2022

Glen Braithwaite was sitting in a gun pit in East Timor when he heard what he thought was gunfire.

Gordon Traill

'I'd never heard anything so loud in my life'

18 November 2022

Gordon Traill can still hear the explosion. He was in Iraq when a car bomb exploded outside the building he was working in.

Julian Thompson

'It’s an absolute privilege'

18 November 2022

Art has always been an important part of Julian Thompson’s life.

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