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.
Perspectives of Parit Sulong
The first documented massacre of Australian troops by the Imperial Japanese during the Second World War
Establishing Gallipoli's Graves
Read more about the work of the Graves Registration Unit (GRU) and Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC - now Commonwealth War Graves Commission) from late 1918 to the mid-1920s at Gallipoli.
Daily Digger: Narrating the First World War
Learn about the Australian War Memorials collection of digitised letters telling the story of the First World War in the words of the diggers
Mettle and Steel: the AANS in Salonika.
Experiences of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in Salonika
Two of Sydney’s sons identified
Learn more about the Remember me: the lost diggers of Vignacourt exhibition, and how it helps researchers identify people in old photographs
"With loving Christmas greetings"
Learn more about the greeting cards sent to and by Australian Service personnel engaged in conflicts from the South African War (1898 – 1902) to Afghanistan (2001 – present), held in the Australian War memorial collection.