Last week, the Australian War Memorial welcomed guests to the official opening of the new Anzac Hall, with the Prime Minister and Governor-General joining the occasion to mark this significant ...

Bringing giant maps into the digital age. The Memorial has been digitising some of the largest maps in the Memorial’s collection. Affectionately referred to by staff as the “m ...

Born in 1873 in Rose Bay, Sydney, John Saumarez Dumaresq was the son of pastoralist William Alexander Dumaresq and his ...

This volume concludes the Army Series. It describes the Australian Army campaigns in the last months of 1944 and in 1945. It tells the full story of the fighting in Bougainville, New Britain, round ...

This volume of the army series of the Australian official war history relates mainly to the operations on Malaya in the first ten weeks of the war against Japan. It has, however, an introductory ...

This volume's main theme is the 9th Australian Division's contribution in 1941-42 to the defeat in North Africa of the German and Italian Army commanded by Field Marshal Rommel. In March 1941, soon ...

The opening months of 1942 were perhaps the darkest days of the Second World War for Australia, with the seemingly unstoppable advance of Imperial Japanese forces across Asia and into the Pacific. The ...

On 1 January 1939 4 Squadron (General Reconnaissance) was renumbered 6 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. Early in the war the unit commenced reconnaissance and bombing exercises with the navy and ...

The number 6 white painted steel lifeboat from the British transport ship HMT (A33) Ascot. The lifeboat has a rivetted beam along its keel, and the steel sheets that the hull is constructed from are ...

Every year, as Anzac Day approaches, people become curious about Anzac biscuits. Maybe it's because the thought of them is a delectable relief to the sombreness of that day and all that it ...

This is one in a series of blogs that covers the basic aspects of Australian uniforms during the First World War. There is a great diversity between nursing uniforms of the First World War. This ...

This is the third in a series of blogs about First World War uniforms and covers the basic aspects of the Australian Imperial Force headwear during the First World War. The most distinctive and ...