The Australian War Memorial in Canberra will commemorate the service and sacrifice of Kindred resident Sergeant Wason Herbert Watsford Arnold at the Last Post Ceremony on Tuesday 24 June 2025, the ...

Show JPG document of AWM133 48 - Nominal roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-18 War: Simpson J R - Sneazwell H H (386.92 KB JPG) (file ...

In January 1916, William boarded the troopship Commonwealth and returned to Australia. While he convalesced at home in Tasmania, his worst fears for his brother were tragically confirmed. Frank was ...

Service number 5705 Final Rank Private Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918 ...

The Australian War Memorial holds a Private Records collection containing two letters that Matron Drummond wrote to her family months before this event. In her first letter, dated 17 December 1941, ...

Major Angela Uphill [E&OE] Good morning, I am Major Angela Uphill, and I have had the privilege of serving as a Physiotherapist in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps for 22 years. My service has ...

Eighty years ago, on 15 August 1945, Emperor Hirohito publicly announced Japan’s acceptance of the Allies’ terms and Japan’s surrender. Nazi Germany had surrendered to the Allies three months earlier.

Annette Blair is an Australian glass artist with a practice spanning over 20 years. Blair creates and produces work for herself, as well as fabricating glass for other high-profile artists. Speaking ...

A crowd of more than 32,000 people gathered in the dark this morning at the Australian War Memorial for the Anzac Day Dawn Service, commemorating the 109th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing. The ...

The Australian prisoners of war remaining on New Britain, which included 60 officers, six army nurses and 13 civilians, were transported to Japan on Natuno Maru. They remained with other prisoners of ...

For Hercules pilot Ian Frame, the Babylift flights were ‘just another task in a long string of tasks’. In typically assiduous C-130 style, the crews of Detachment S simply got on with the job, not ...

Australians continued to serve after the Armistice that ended the First World War. The Russian civil war had drawn in British, French and other allied nations to bolster the White Russian forces, but ...