While many Australians today would not have heard the name Aubrey Coad, Australian veterans of the Korean War will certainly recall the man they nicknamed “the grey-headed old bastard”.

While documenting the hazards on display in the South Africa Galleries, the National Collection Hazard Management Project team found a Personal First Aid Kit, which was carried by Daily Telegraph correspondent Frank Wilkinson during his time reporting on the Boer War.

For Our Country takes out the highest accolade - the Canberra Medallion - at the 2020 Australian Institute of Architecture ACT Chapter Awards.

Operation Roundup was a combined naval, air and ground operation that took place off the west coast of Korea in 1952 during the Korean War.

Australia and Russia have shared a long history. The sloop Neva was the first Russian ship to visit the Australian mainland, visiting the New South Wales colony in 1807.

He was one of the last officers to be evacuated from Gallipoli, and he was killed on the Western Front, but amid the horror of the war, Frederick Septimus Kelly always found beauty in music.

It’s one of the first things visitors to the Australian War Memorial see: a bullet-riddled, steel lifeboat that carried troops of the 13th Battalion ashore during the Gallipoli landings.

In mid-February, the Australian War Memorial received an email from Joanne Tapiolas enquiring about a painting she had read about in a book about South Australia.

The Australian War Memorial has a rich collection of records and objects relating to the service of defence chaplains, affectionately known as  padres.