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.

Just 30 minutes after losing both his legs in a horrific blast in Afghanistan, Curtis McGrath was lying on a stretcher joking to his mates that they would see him at the Paralympics one day.

For almost 75 years, 95-year-old Gordon Willoughby has carefully guarded a collection of images from the Second World War in an old pay envelope in the drawer of his late wife’s dressing table.

When John Mott was captured at Bullecourt in April 1917, he was determined to escape.

Leonard Timbrell was just a teenager when he joined the Navy and went away to war.