The Memorial boasts a staff of subject specialists in all aspects of military history and museum practice.
Our Blogs, Articles and our Encyclopedia allow our historians, curators, librarians and exhibition team to share their knowledge and information on Australian military history, the Memorial's vast collection, recent acquisitions, exhibitions and events.
31 October 2018
Harry Willis was a fresh-faced teenager from country Victoria who went off to fight during the First World War.
31 October 2018
From Sydney Harbour to Mount Ainslie, the wreck of a Japanese Submarine took the long way around.
31 October 2018
When General Sir Harry Chauvel retired from the army in 1930, he had one simple request: to ride every day.
25 October 2018
Ben Farinazzo is a tower of strength, but it’s his inner strength that shines through as he shares his own personal story in a bid to help others.
25 October 2018
When Garry Robinson is competing, it’s the people who can’t be there who inspire him the most.
19 October 2018
When Debra Lewis was making poppies for the Memorial, she was thinking of her father and her grandfather.
19 October 2018
Sarah Worley’s grandfather was severely wounded while serving with the Anzacs on Gallipoli and wore a brace for the rest of his life. But he never spoke about the First World War.
15 October 2018
When veteran songwriter and producer Garth Porter was researching ideas for his latest album at the Australian War Memorial, he couldn’t help but be moved and inspired by the stories he found.
15 October 2018
Charles Bean would sit up late each night writing in his diaries, often by candlelight or moonlight and struggling to keep his eyes open. Now, a century after he wrote them, and 50 years after his death, extracts from his diaries have been printed together for the first time in The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean.
