When Sergeant Edward McMahon played The Rosary on Gallipoli in August 1915, everyone stopped to listen.

Artist Napier Waller lost his right arm after being wounded in the fighting at Bullecourt in 1917, but he never lost his love of art. Today, Napier Waller is also remembered at the Memorial through a new $10,000 art prize which has been named in his honour.

“I can’t believe you are away again.” Kathy Swinden wrote these words to her husband, Lieutenant Commander Greg Swinden, in October 2001. It was the third time in eighteen months that Greg had been deployed and separated from his family.

This fifth in a series of articles on the Memorial’s tattoo project and tattoo collections focuses on members of the Royal Australian Navy.

The mosaic inside the dome depicts the souls of the dead rising from the earth towards their spiritual home, represented by a glowing sun within the Southern Cross.

On 27 August 1918, Sergeant Frank McCristal was a very lucky man. That day his unit, C Company, 30th Battalion, as part of a larger attack, was ordered to straighten the Australian front line near the French village of Foucaucourt.

Lieutenant Jack Millett was an incorrigible escape artist. Having served in the Western Desert, the young Australian army officer was captured by German forces during the fighting on Crete in May 1941.

Today marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Varsity, the Allied airborne crossing of the Rhine.